Germany, DRL. A 1937 Award Certificate for a DRL Champions Badge

(Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen Verleihungsurkunde). An award certificate for a DRL Champions Badge in Bronze, constructed of cream-coloured paper stock, the obverse with a golden-yellow DRL-style German national eagle perched on a Grecian column, overlaid by an inscription awarding the badge to Helmut Bonnet in Berlin on 1 August 1937, with a facsimile of the signature of Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten, measuring 275 mm (w) x 404 mm (h), material fatigue evident to both the obverse and reverse, in overall better than very fine condition.

Footnote: Helmut Bonnet competed in the men’s decathlon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, placing 8th. As a Luftwaffe instructor during the Second World War, Bonnet was wounded in action and died in a military hospital in Munich on 27 September 1944.