20 years national Olympic Committee - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1971 - 20 Pfennig

20 years National Olympic Committee of the GDR For the 20th anniversary of the National Olympic Committee of the GDR, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issued a multicolored special postage stamp. 20 years of National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic - 20 years of successful Olympic work On April 22, 1951, the National Olympic Committee was founded in the German Democratic Republic. The young democratic sports movement in our state took on an international humanistic task that successfully solved it. Sport and physical culture took a big boost in the German Democratic Republic. Since their first appearance at the Olympic Games in 1956, our best athletes in the international arena have proven themselves again and again. The principled activities of the National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic led to its unconditional recognition by the International Olympic Committee at its congress in Mexico City (1968) and the election of the NOK President, Dr. Ing. Heinz Schöbel, as a member of the international committee (1966). The Olympic idea is widespread in the German Democratic Republic. An expression of this is the issue of a special postage stamp for the 20th anniversary of the National Olympic Committee. The signet of the National Olympic Committee and the two years 1951 and 1971 symbolize the historic path. Coubertin's slogan and the Myron discus thrower embody the ideas that have found a true home on German soil in the first socialist state. The Diskobol of the Myron is not only a symbol of the ancient and modern Olympic Games and the principle that man is the measure of all things. He is also a symbol of what Coubertin and his associates under the Olympic Movement wanted to be understood as an educational concern, 1918 Coubertin wrote in his Olympic letters: "She (the Olympic Movement) refuses, from the physical education something purely physiological and from any sport It refuses to catalog the cognitions of the mind and classify them in categories that have nothing to do with each other. It refuses to allow a luxury education system reserved for the well-to-do classes alone. She refuses to squeeze the art into tablets, which everyone has to swallow at the appointed hour, and set up a kind of roadmap for thinking reminiscent of the railway's course books Movement kicks the dividing walls, it demands light and air for all, she steps in for an al general, accessible to all sports education, marked by male courage and knightly spirit, in conjunction with aesthetic and literary events, as an engine for the life of the people and as a source of civic being. This is their ideal program. "Coubertin has always been concerned with the dialectical unity of" muscular power, intellect, character, and conscience, "the whole human being under decent social conditions, Mens fervida in corpore lacertoso, a fire-spattering, a revolutionary, a creative spirit Thus, the founder of the modern Olympic Games wished mankind: in 1894, Coubertin set the ambitious goal of helping the Olympic movement spread international understanding, peace and democracy, and in 1920 he proposed "the democratic goals modern sports attitude in the following words: "Every sport for everyone" "(From the opening address to the IOC Congress in Rome in 1923.) This Coubertin thought is the basis of the Olympic movement in the German Democratic Republic, because - thanks to our socialist production and social relationships It becomes clear what the founder of modern Olympism aspired to do: - with the help and support of our government and the working-class party, all citizens have the opportunity to develop into universally-formed socialist personalities to whom the Olympic principles are at heart; - the politics of the first Immanent to the workers 'and peasants' state on German soil is what underlies the human idea of ​​the Olympic idea - our socialist sports movement in all its parts Coubertin's response confirms to those who wanted to stamp his ideas into a utopia: "I'm building the future. What I propose is a revolution. "(IOC Newsletter, Issue 10/1968, page 290).