Original Item: One-of-a-Kind. This is a very nice Weimar Republic era Navy Boxing competition 2nd Place award, in the form of a shield-shaped brass plaque mounted to a wooden backing board. It measures approximately 3" wide by 3 5/8" high, and is in lovely condition. Even during the interwar period, sports competitions took place in the German armed forces to build a sense of competition and comradery. This award shows a Viking-style sailing ship in the middle, with the following text surrounding it:

Meiſterſchaften
der Reichsmarine

Kiel (Viking Ship) 1932

Boxen
Weltergewicht
2. Preis

This translates to: "Reichsmarine Championships: Boxing, Welterweight, 2nd Prize". Overall condition is lovely, with a great patina. The Reichsmarine would cease to exist in 1935, when the NSDAP made it part of the larger Wehrmacht, so finding one from this era is definitely rare.

Ready to research and display!

The Weimar Republic (German: Weimarer Republik), officially the German Reich (Deutsches Reich), also referred to as the German People's State (Deutscher Volksstaat) or simply the German Republic (Deutsche Republik), was the German state from 1918 to 1933. As a term, it is an unofficial historical designation that derives its name from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place. The official name of the republic remained the German Reich as it had been during the German Empire because of the German tradition of substates.

Although commonly translated as "German Empire," Reich here better translates as "realm" in that the term does not necessarily have monarchical connotations in itself. The Reich was changed from a constitutional monarchy into a republic. In English, the country was usually known simply as Germany, and the Weimar Republic name became mainstream only in the 1930s.