DLRG Awards For Friederich Ehrmann

[RonR]

The German Life Saving Association (Deutschen Lebensrettungsgesellschaft) or DLRG was founded in 1913 as an offshoot of the German Swimming League in order to train persons in water safety.

On September 25, 1933, the president f the DLRG placed his organization under the overall control of the Reich Sports League, and a series of awards was instituted corresponding to various degrees of proficiency.

The first level award was the "Grundschein' and was a basic certificate and the bronze lapel pin with the word "Grundschein".

The second level was the "Leistungschein" with more rigorous qulification tests and the award of a certificate and a silver lapel pin with the word "Leistungschein".

The highest level was for an instuctor and resulted in the award of the "Lehrschein" certificate and corresponding silver lapel pin.


Here are the awards of Friederich Ehrmann, earned on June 12, 1939.

First the Bronze Grundschein:



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And his Leistungschein awards:



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In addition, all members were authorized to wear the organizations emblem on their athletic uniform.



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Here is another Silver lapel pin that was acquired with the group, but I do not know this significance of this award.



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Also acquired with the group are these two lapel pins, perhaps representing 10 years and 40 years as a member of the DLRG.



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[pagannz]

That is a great set Ron.

I for the life of me cannot tell the difference between a TR DLRG award and a later one.

[luftkrieg]

Ron

These are just fantastic!

Kind regards
Pierce

[nachomenorca]

Hi! I get these two cualification cards from the DLRG, both to the same person, what amazes me is that the, comparing to RonR ones, they seems to have the designs of the cards and the cualification grades interchanged, any idea why?

Thanks in advance for any light on this point









Nacho