Originally posted by Ralph Pickard
Hey Thälmannpionier...thanks for the reply with displaying other examples of your documents. Let me add this to why the location of the Dickel signature on the document was and is important to me...
(My understanding) You bring up a good point about Generalinspekteur Karl Maron, but the date on the document was the first day when he became the minister of the Vopo (01 Jul 55). I believe that Maron signed the document before 01 Jul 55 and that his signature would have been under the signature block. Which if done below the signature block, meant that Maron was not yet the minister . Which is why I believe he signed the document before July 1955. And why the Dickel signature below the signatue block for me is important. I hope this makes sense...and comments very much welcomed!!!
(My understanding) You bring up a good point about Generalinspekteur Karl Maron, but the date on the document was the first day when he became the minister of the Vopo (01 Jul 55). I believe that Maron signed the document before 01 Jul 55 and that his signature would have been under the signature block. Which if done below the signature block, meant that Maron was not yet the minister . Which is why I believe he signed the document before July 1955. And why the Dickel signature below the signatue block for me is important. I hope this makes sense...and comments very much welcomed!!!
Would you say they have awarded the Urkunde and medal from 01 Jul 1955 to that date on purpose,because Maron became the minister??could bite my a$$ now,that I did not buy the whole lot 
..cheers
Hi Torsten
I was just assuming he could have had some connections with Stasi,because there was this Invitation card of the Staatssicherheit within the bulk of Urkundes.Also it is a well known fact that on unofficial demonstrations and festivals in the DDR some undercover agents of the secret police were right in the middle of the Demo. Wearing little Pins on there jackets with the "D" for Dynamo to identify themselfs while observing..And when the raid of the Volkspolizei on the demonstrants started,they were already on the "frontline" to arrest them..They didn't use only Dynamo Pins,probably all sorts of Pins during the years..
...I also wouldn't be ashamed now to tell if i was in the SED..unfortunetly i was a bit young at this time...otherwise I would probably have joined the party,why not?it didn't has Disadvantages for yourself....I for myself don't care who and who wasn't in the party or anything else.I would rather find it interesting now to hear things from someone,who made experience in such organisation.I've found it also quite interesting how many people in the DDR turned out to been in the Stasi,just after the wall came down.Even my old neighbour from across the street(isn't alive anymore)was a Undercover Agent,his code name was Waldmann (Forestman) because I live in a little neighbourhood called Waldsiedlung( Forest-village).We had two Stasi Agents in our little neighbourhood but the other one was well known in the neighbourhood...I can remember one year when the Elections of the Parties were,this guy came with his little box where you can put in your voting letter and wanted to pick up ours.My father probably wasn't in the right mood this day and said to this guy he don't want to vote because he's not happy with the Things going on in the DDR...The guys face turned into deep red
and he pointed his finger towards my dad and told him,if he wouldnt vote,then he will put him on the "black list".He didn't tell it nice to my father
.Don't ask me what the black list was,i just remembered this story while writing this thread cheers
Andreas
also, an invitation to a Stasi party again is no proof...he was a relatively high ranking VOPO officer and he would have been invited to all sorts of things and he would also absolutely certainly have been involved with the Stasi in one way or another..but we will just have to wait and see what other documents you can get on the next Flohmarkt to find out a little bit more about the man and his past... 
Cheers, Torsten.
That would be interesting to ask him directly
But it is definitely worth it!! I have put together a fahnenkommando with a fake Truppenfahne that I have more or less sown myself... (sorry originals are not available...
although, I am not into re-enacting at all, I think that I would be quite interested in going to the show to have a look around, but this summer is a bad time...I already have two children, which do command a lot of time (not to mention the wife) and there is a third baby on the way right now (ETA is July this year) 
and the wife would kill me if I went swaning off to enjoy myself... 
but I would certainly be interested to see the Fahnenkommando that you have put together...why not post it here...? Don't worry, I am sure that no-one is going to take the micky... 
Then I switched to the Army Criminal Investigation Command and suddenly I found my uniforms were falling apart from age, but the rank on them never seemed to change. 
Military Occupational Skills indeed seem to have played a major role relevant to one's rank. Based upon your research and findings, this seems to have transcended all Armies. 
poor guy...
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