Ribbon: Red with blue edges.

Instituted: 1958.
A medal was presented to all winner from 1969 and retrospectively to those awarded the prize 1958-1969.

Awarded: As a literary prize , an art prize for works of fine art and a music prize to members of the Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Free German Trade Union). From 1969, film, theatre, and other forms of entertainment were included.