In copper and paint, the medallion measures 30 mm wide. The raised inscription on the reverse reads "Top Performer in the FDJ Hans Beimler Competition."

In very fine condition, just a few tiny missing spots of blue paint to the suspension and some barely noticeable scuffs to the coating layer of the metal near the edge at 8 o'clock. The pin attachment is fully functional.

Hans Beimler (1895 - 1936) was a German communist politician and trade unionist who served in the Reichstag and the Landtag of Bavaria from 1932 to 1933 when Hitler arrested him and sent him to the Dachau c

In copper and paint, the medallion measures 30 mm wide. The raised inscription on the reverse reads "Top Performer in the FDJ Hans Beimler Competition."

In very fine condition, just a few tiny missing spots of blue paint to the suspension and some barely noticeable scuffs to the coating layer of the metal near the edge at 8 o'clock. The pin attachment is fully functional.

Hans Beimler (1895 - 1936) was a German communist politician and trade unionist who served in the Reichstag and the Landtag of Bavaria from 1932 to 1933 when Hitler arrested him and sent him to the Dachau concentration camp. Beimler managed to escape a few weeks later and flee to Czechoslovakia and then on to the Soviet Union. In 1936, Beimler was appointed as commissar of all International Brigades supporting the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. In November 1936, he was shot and killed in Madrid.

The East German Frei Deutsche Jugend organization (FDJ, equivalent to the Soviet Komsomol), dedicated their paramilitary exercises tournament to Hans Beimler and instituted this medal for the winners of these tournaments.
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