Medal - Ernst Schneller (Delitzsch) ND

Reverse

City shield, in the background on the left the 'Breiter Turm', in the center the 'Hallescher Turm', on the right the 'Schlossturm', above the name of the city on a phylactery

Lettering: Delitzsch

Edge

Plain

Comment

Ernst Schneller, a schoolteacher by training, was a member of parliament for the KPD (communist party) during the Weimar Republic until the National Socialist party was elected to power. He was imprisoned and murdered by the SS in the Sachsenhausen concentration center on October 11, 1944. Medal issued under the German democratic republic.