6 DDR: Vaterländischer Verdienstorden in Gold mit Ehrenspange mit Trägerausweis Nr. 6/63 verliehen an Prof. Rudolf Lindau.

  The order decoration gold, awarded from 1965 - 1972. On the reverse gold hallmark "900". Connection penetration between the order and ribbon clasp also with gold hallmark "900". On honorary clasp made of 900 gold (tested), without gold hallmark. Set with two diamonds of 0,1 ct. each. On pin. In beautiful original case made of white leather with blue velvet inlay. Comes with the leather-covered bearer's certificate for Professor Dr. h.c. Rudolf Lindau, No. 6/63, with signature and official seal of the Chief of the Office of the Council of Ministers of the GDR. On the cover the designation: VATERLÄNDISCHER VERDIENSTORDEN" in gold embossing.Rudolf Lindau was since 1920 leading KPD - functionary. In February 1934 he emigrated to the Soviet Union, where he was initially a teacher at the Lenin School and later at antifa schools and worked in the National Committee Free Germany. His son Rudolf Lindau was executed in Hamburg on January 10, 1934. The court accused him of having shot SA people as a functionary of the KJVD on Altona Bloody Sunday in July 1932. Returned in 1947, until 1947 main adviser in the department of party training of the CC of the KPD, respectively from April 1946 of the CC of the SED. Since he had already gradually lost his important functions within the KPD at the end of the twenties, he no longer came to the fore in the SED either. In October 1947, the taciturn old revolutionary became director of the "Karl Marx" Party College. He was replaced there in October 1950. Now he worked at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism. A decision of the Central Committee commissioned Lindau to write a biography of Thälmann, which he never completed. He published several pamphlets on the history of communism, including "Revolutionary Struggles 1918/19", Berlin 1960. This work was attacked by Walter Ulbricht and his followers and Lindau was condemned as a dogmatist. He had - in contrast to the SED theses of the time - described the November Revolution of 1918 in Germany as a socialist and not a bourgeois revolution. However, the stubborn Lindau, as the only one of the attacked historians, refused any "self-criticism". Rudolf Lindau died on 18 October 1977 in East - Berlin. The VVO in gold with honorary clasp was awarded in the here available first version only in 64 copies and that from 1964 - 1972. The honorary clasp was lent for the first time on 06.05.1965. Willi Stoph presented it to Walter Ulbricht. Weight with honorary clasp: 91,9 g. Ensemble of exceptionally great rarity.

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