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Here is your chance to pick up a maker marked SA sports badge in bronze. Nice patinaed bronze finish to this one and is maker marked on the reverse for Richard Sieper. The SA Sports Badge was instituted on 28 November 1933 by then SA chief Ernst Röhm. It was originally only issued in bronze through the year 1935. Then on 15 February 1935, Hitler decreed that the badge be officially recognized. It was thereafter issued in three grades (bronze, silver, and gold). The DRL badge was no longer to be issued to SA members, as well as youth of all German military and paramilitary organizations. Originally the badge grade was awarded on degrees of “proficiency”, but in 1936, a points system was established. In 1937 it was required that each recipient had to pass an annual proficiency test to retain the badge. On 19 January 1939, Hitler changed the name of the badge from SA- Sportabzeichen (SA Sports Badge) to SA- Wehrabzeichen (SA-Defence Badge). Hitler challenged all able-bodied boys age 16 and up to compete for the award. Older military men were also encouraged to obtain it. The badge was one of the few political decorations that the armed forces allowed to freely be displayed on a military uniform. Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!
