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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1713818, member: 39&quot;]Cannot read the entire text, but the first words of the reverse are &quot;Aus dem Programm der SED&quot; (&quot;From the SED program&quot; - the SED was the dominating party in the GDR). The bigger words in the text are &quot;Alles Humanistische u. Revolutionäre wird in der DDR in Ehren bewahrt&quot; which means something like &quot;Everything humanist and revolutionary is preserved in honor in the GDR&quot;. Also, at the bottom of that side you see the logo of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Association_of_the_GDR" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Association_of_the_GDR" rel="nofollow">Kulturbund</a>. So I guess the medal was issued by the KB, not sure when.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse shows a portrait of Friedrich Fröbel; at the bottom of the bust there seems to be a designer signature. The motto below is a Fröbel quote: &quot;Mein Streben sei: Die Menschen ihnen selbst zu geben&quot;. Difficult to translate without the context; in a note to a friend, I think, he wrote: &quot;You (should) give bread to people; <i>I (should) aim at giving people to themselves</i>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1982 the GDR issued a 5 Mark coin honoring Friedrich Fröbel, by the way: <a href="http://img.ma-shops.de/duerr/pic/13064_20120804044_m.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img.ma-shops.de/duerr/pic/13064_20120804044_m.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img.ma-shops.de/duerr/pic/13064_20120804044_m.jpg</a>&nbsp; But judging from the style of your medal, it will be older than that ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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