Item number: M406

Year: AD 1957

Material: Silver

Size: 28.0 x 19.6 x 4.4 mm

Weight: 7.55 g

Provenance: Leipziger Münzhandlung und Auktion Heodrun Höhn e.K. 2024

This is a commemorative badge issued in AD 1957 by the People’s Republic of China to mark the one-year anniversary of a forestry cooperation survey conducted in North China and Inner Mongolia. The survey was led by Hans Stubbe, a renowned agricultural scientist from the Berlin Academy of Sciences, which was under the jurisdiction of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

The badge was issued in limited quantities and was presented in a blue, gold-embossed storage case. It has a rectangular shape, with the front side featuring a light blue enamel background and a central emblem of a pine tree. The upper edge bears the inscription “Sino-German Forestry Workers’ Friendship”—a standard slogan frequently used within the socialist bloc. The lower edge contains two lines of text indicating the presenting organisation: “Presented with respect by the Forestry Expedition of the People’s Republic of China.” The back side is fitted with a pin clasp, and the year of issuance, “1957,” is engraved near the bottom.

Hans Stubbe was born in AD 1902 and specialised in life sciences and agriculture. During the Nazi era, he was persecuted and forced to abandon his research position. After World War II, Stubbe played a crucial role in establishing and leading the Institute for Cultivated Plant Research, which became one of East Germany’s premier research institutions.

During his tenure at the institute, Stubbe resisted political pressure and actively opposed Lysenkoism, the dominant Soviet genetic theory under Joseph Stalin. Trofim Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics and, with Stalin’s backing, orchestrated the arrest and persecution of scientists who opposed his views. As the Soviet Union expanded its influence during the Cold War, Lysenkoism spread across the Eastern Bloc and became the dominant ideological framework in socialist scientific research. It was only after Nikita Khrushchev’s downfall in AD 1964 that Lysenko’s influence over the scientific community was finally dismantled.

物件編號: M406

年代: 公元 1957 年

材質: 銀

尺寸: 28.0 x 19.6 x 4.4 mm

重量: 7.55 g

來源: 萊比錫錢幣拍賣行 2024

這是一枚公元1957年，中華人民共和國為紀念一年前跟德意志民主共和國(東德) 下轄的柏林德國科學院，知名農業學家漢斯·斯塔貝主導的東德科學家在華北和內蒙古地區展開林業合作考察的紀念胸章。

這枚胸章頒發的數量極為有限，置放於藍色燙金的收納盒。胸章外觀為長方形，正面以淡藍色琺瑯為背景，中央有一株松樹的圖騰，上緣以漢字打印「中德林業工作者友誼」這種社會主義陣營經常使用的標準口號，下緣則以兩行字標示贈出單位「中華人民共和國 林業考察團敬贈」。胸章背面有一根別針，靠近下方的部分鐫刻發行年份「1957」。

漢斯·斯塔貝出生於公元1902年，主攻生命科學和農業，納粹掌權期間遭到迫害和被迫離開研究崗位。第二次世界大戰結束後，漢斯·斯塔貝服務和創建東德首屈一指的研究機關「栽培植物研究所」。斯塔貝服務於研究所的期間，還頂住政治壓力反對來自蘇聯的李森科主義。李森科為史達林統治時期，蘇聯主流的遺傳學理論權威，李森科否定孟德爾的遺傳學說並且利用史達林對他的信任，逮捕和迫害反對其意見的科學家，隨著蘇聯勢力在冷戰後的擴張，李森科主義也成為東歐社會主義陣營的顯學，直到公元1964年赫魯雪夫倒台後，李森科對於科學界的影響力才遭到剔除。