GST Best Badge

Product Description

Original Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik Bestenabzeichen der GST (Best Badge) from the DDR (East Germany).  All are from the 1980's and show some storage age.

The Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST), lit. "Sport and Technology Association", was one of the East German "Mass Organizations". Officially, it was established to structure the free time of young people interested in sports and technology in group activities, provide the required technical equipment (for example, motorcycles, aircraft, radios), cultivate and support technical sport disciplines, and arrange for events like motor and shooting competitions. The association also contributed to the militarization of East German society by organizing together with the National People's Army the country's mandatory pre-military training (VA, vormilitärische Ausbildung) in schools, universities and workplaces. It was established on 7 August 1952 and disbanded in early 1990.