Germany Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (DRL) Silver Honor Badge

Excellent and rare enameled silver version of a DRL honor award stickpin. Silvered Tombac. Unmarked. Measures 16mm across. Pre-1938 before the DRL became the NSRL. The Silver Honor Badge was awarded to non-members who contributed is extraordinary ways to the organization. Very rare badge.

The National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise (German: Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen, abbreviated NSRL) was the umbrella organization for sports and physical education in Nazi Germany. The NSRL was known as the German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise (German: Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen, abbreviated DRL) until 1938. The organization was expanded to Austria after that country’s annexation by Nazi Germany.

The NSRL was led by the Reichssportführer, who after 1934 simultaneously presided over the German National Olympic Committee. The NSRL’s leaders were Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1933–1943), Arno Breitmeyer (1943–1944) and Karl Ritter von Halt (1944–1945).