DRL Sports Badge – Silver

Product Description: A well-preserved DRL Sports Badge – Silver, representing an attractive example from the Third Reich era. The badge retains a pleasing, even silver finish with tombak base metal showing through at high points. The reverse is maker-marked Wernstein – Jena, a known Second World War producer.

Free of damage and exhibiting crisp detail throughout the monogram and wreath, this DRL Sports Badge – Silver stands as a fine, collectible specimen of German athletic award insignia, notable for its condition and craftsmanship. Overall this badge rates in excellent condition.

Historical Description: The DRA / DRL Sport Badge was an interesting decoration that underwent a number of changes during the Third Reich, and had roots all the way back to the 1912 Olympics. During the Weimar Republic, the German national sport award was issued by the Deutsche Reichsausschuss für Leibesübungen, and bore the initials “DRA.” Starting in 1935, the award was recognized as a national level decoration, issued by the Deutsche Reichsausschuß für Leibesübungen, with the initials “DRL” and a swastika. The designation of this award was the Deutsches Reichssportabzeichen, and later the Deutsche Reichsauszeichnung für Leibesübungen. The decoration was awarded in three grades. and reflected proficiency in sports and participation in official trainings and competitions. During wartime, changes were made to the award to make getting and keeping the award easier for soldiers in front line service. This included new criteria and a new grade of the award introduced in 1942 for war disabled men. Issue of the sports badges ceased in 1944.

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