Size box: 8×6cm./3.1×2.3inch.
Size medal: 3cm./1.1inch.
Weight: 37gr./1.3oz.
 
Medal made in the DDR. Pestalozzi medal for faithful services. The medal was awarded in three classes to teachers and educators of vacational and educational institutions of the DDR. Bronze (10 years), Silver (20 years), and bronze (30 years).
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland and wrote many works explaining his revolutionary modern principles of education. His motto was “Learning by head, hand and heart”. Thanks to Pestalozzi, illiteracy in 18th-century Switzerland was overcome almost completely by 1830.