Medal Germany KÖSSINGER SCHIERLING 28 German Shooting Day Association Ingolstadt

The German Shooting Sport and Archery Federation (German: Deutscher Schützenbund, DSB) is the largest umbrella organization for sport shooters in Germany. It was founded in 1861 in Gotha and re-founded in 1951 in Frankfurt / Main. DSB was Germany's fourth-largest sports association in 2008, with 1,095,071 male and 357,400 female shooters.

Besides the well-known Olympic disciplines of Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun and Archery the German Shooting and Archery Federation also looks after the disciplines of Running Target, Muzzle-loader, Field Archery, Crossbow and Summer Biathlon.

The senior administrative body of the German Shooting and Archery Federation is the biannual General Meeting of Members. Executive bodies are the Managing Committee and the Executive Committee, the latter has nine members (president, five vice-presidents, national treasurer, national head of sports and national head of junior sports). Since 1994 Josef Ambacher from Starnberg is president.

The German Shooting and Archery Federation’s objects are to support and supervise sport shooting according to standardized rules, to regulate training, to establish national leagues, to promote the shooting tradition, to represent its members nationally and internationally, to advocate the interests and needs of all young people especially those organised in shooting sports, to realize the "Deutschen Schuetzentag", to represent sport shooting and the general shooting tradition in the public uniformly.

The head office is located in Wiesbaden-Klarenthal under the direction of Secretary General Joerg Brokamp.

The DSB’s monthly published official paper is named “Deutsche SchuetzenZeitung”

Medal issued as part of the 28th German Shooting Day in 1979 in Ingolstadt. As the association meeting of the German Shooting Federation, the German Shooting Day takes place every two years. Delegates from all regional associations convene on this occasion to address the affairs of the entire association. Awards are presented, and the new federal kings are crowned. The medal is affixed to a blue and white checked ribbon with a pin. Inscription: "28th German Shooting Day Ingolstadt 1979." In the center of the badge is the coat of arms of the German Shooting Federation, held by a lion and a bear. Below is the city coat of arms of Ingolstadt. Below the lion is the logo of the Bavarian Sport Shooting Federation, and below the bear is the logo of the Berlin-Brandenburg Shooting Association. In the background is the silhouette of Ingolstadt's city center. On the reverse is the company logo "Kössinger" from Schierling (Upper Palatinate).

The Bavarian Shooting Sports Association (BSSB) is an umbrella organization for sport shooting in Bavaria . It has a total of 521,188 members (primary and secondary members) in 4,452 clubs (as of December 31, 2023). This makes it by far the largest regional association of the German Shooting Federation (DSB) . Its headquarters are at the Olympic shooting range in Garching-Hochbrück near Munich. With its club activities, shooting competitions and youth work, the BSSB promotes both grassroots and elite sport, cultivates traditions and customs and thus actively shapes the future of shooting. As a professional association, the BSSB is the contact for the state and politics on all questions relating to sport shooting and shooting in Bavaria as well as for society in general with sports, science and the media.

Ingolstadt is an independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142,308 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2023). Around half a million people live in the metropolitan area. Ingolstadt is the second largest city in Upper Bavaria after Munich and the fifth largest city in Bavaria after Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg and Regensburg. The city passed the mark of 100,000 inhabitants in 1989 and has since been one of the major cities in Germany. After Regensburg, Ingolstadt is the second largest German city on the Danube.

The city was first mentioned in 806. In the late Middle Ages, the city was one of the capitals of the Bavarian duchies alongside Munich, Landshut and Straubing, which is reflected in the architecture. On 13 March 1472 Ingolstadt became the seat of the first university in Bavaria, which later distinguished itself as the center of the Counter-Reformation. The freethinking Illuminati order was also founded here in 1776. The city was also a Bavarian state fortress for more than 400 years. The historic old town has been preserved.

There are two colleges in the city. The place is one of the three regional centers in Bavaria. The city is mainly characterized by the manufacturing industry, such as automobile and mechanical engineering. The unemployment rate was 3.3% in February 2022.

The Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan region (German: Metropolregion Berlin-Brandenburg) or capital region (German: Hauptstadtregion Berlin-Brandenburg) is one of eleven metropolitan regions of Germany, consisting of the entire territories of the state of Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg. The region covers an area of 30,545 square kilometres (11,793 sq mi) with a total population of about 6.2 million.

The metropolitan region should be distinguished from Berlin's immediate agglomeration, dubbed Berliner Umland (English: Berlin's surrounding countryside or Berlin's countryside) which comprises the city and the nearby Brandenburg municipalities. Berliner Umland is significantly smaller and much more densely populated than the metropolitan region, accounting for the vast majority of the region's population over a fraction of its total land area.