Editing Erich Honecker (section)

==Honours and awards==
===National honours===
*{{flag|East Germany}}:
**[[File:Held der DDR.png|40x40px]] [[Hero of the German Democratic Republic]], twice (1982, 1987)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Klaus H.|last1=Feder|first2=Uta|last2=Feder|title= Auszeichnungen der Nationalen Volksarmee der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1954-1990|publisher=Munz Galerie|date=1994|isbn=|language=de|pages=}}</ref>
**[[File:Held der Arbeit.png|40x40px]] [[Hero of Labour (GDR)|Hero of Labour]] (1962)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deutsche-gesellschaft-fuer-ordenskunde.de/DGOWP/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HdA-1950-1989.pdf|title=Verleihungsliste zum Ehrentitel "Held der Arbeit" der DDR von 1950 bis 1989|newspaper=Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ordenskunde e.V.|first=Dirk|last=Hubrich|lang=de|date=June 2013|access-date=3 July 2023|archive-date=3 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403103820/http://www.deutsche-gesellschaft-fuer-ordenskunde.de/DGOWP/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HdA-1950-1989.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
**[[File:Ehrenspange.png|40x40px]] Honor clasp in Gold of the [[Patriotic Order of Merit]] (1955)
**	[[Order of Karl Marx]], five times (1969, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1985)<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=2158|title=Эрих Хонеккер|newspaper=warheroes.ru|access-date= 3 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[File:GDR Order of Banner of Labor (1954-1974) BAR.png|40x40px]] [[Banner of Labor|Order of the Banner of Labor]]<ref name=":2"/>

===Foreign honours===
*{{flag|Austria}}:
**[[File:AUT Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria - 1st Class BAR.svg|40x40px]] [[Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria|Grand Star of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria]]<ref>{{cite book|first1=Klaus H.|last1=Feder|first2=Uta|last2=Feder|title= Verfreundete Nachbarn: Deutschland - Österreich ; Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung im Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 19. Mai bis 23. Oktober 2005 ; im Zeitgeschichtlichen Forum Leipzig, 2. Juni bis 9. Oktober 2006 ; in Wien 2006|publisher=Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland|date=2005|isbn=9783938025185|language=de|pages=175}}</ref>
*{{flag|People's Republic of Bulgaria}}:
**[[File:Пластина на орден „Георги Димитров“.gif|40x40px]] [[Order of Georgi Dimitrov]] 
*{{flag|Cuba}}:
**[[File:Ribbon jose marti.png|40x40px]] [[Order of José Martí]]<ref>{{cite book|first=Ronald H.|last=Chilcote|title= Cuba, 1953-1978: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature|publisher=Kraus International Publications|date=1986|isbn=9780527168247|language=|pages=777}}</ref>
**[[File:Order of Playa Girón (ribbon bar).png|40x40px]] [[Order of Playa Girón]] (1986)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt900021c7&view=dsc&style=oac4&dsc.position=7501|title=Speech presenting Playa Girón Order award to Erich Honecker, East Berlin, East Germany|newspaper=Online Archive of California|date=26 October 1986|access-date=3 July 2023|archive-date=3 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703095850/https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt900021c7&view=dsc&style=oac4&dsc.position=7501|url-status=live}}</ref>
*{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}:
**[[File:CZE_Rad_Bileho_Lva_3_tridy_BAR.svg|40x40px]] First Class of the [[Order of the White Lion]] (1987)<ref name=":2"/>
**[[File:Cs2okg.png|40x40px]] [[Order of Klement Gottwald]] (1982)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160822183204/http://www.prazskyhradarchiv.cz/archivKPR/upload/rkg.pdf Řád Klementa Gottwalda – za budování socialistické vlasti (zřízen vládním nařízením č. 14/1953 Sb. ze dne 3. února 1953, respektive vládním nařízením č. 5/1955 Sb. ze dne 8. února 1955): Seznam nositelů (podle matriky nositelů)]</ref>
*{{flag|Finland}}:
**[[File:FIN Order of the White Rose Grand Cross BAR.png|40x40px]] [[Order of the White Rose of Finland|Commander of the Grand Cross of the White Rose of Finland]] (1977)
*{{flag|Polish People's Republic}}:
**[[File:POL_Order_Zaslugi_PRL_kl1_BAR.png|40x40px]] Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland|Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland]]
*{{flag|Nicaragua}}:
**[[File:Orden Sandino 1.svg|40x40px]] First Class of the Order of Augusto César Sandino
*{{flag|North Korea}}:
**[[File:DPRK_ribbon_bar_-_Order_of_National_Flag_1st_Class.svg|40x40px]] First Class of the [[Order of the National Flag]] (1988)<ref>{{cite book|title= IDSA News Review on East Asia - Volume 2|publisher=|date=1988|isbn=|language=|pages=60}}</ref>
*{{flag|Socialist Republic of Romania}}:
**[[File:Order Victoria Socialismului rib.png|40x40px]] [[Order of Victory of Socialism]] (1987)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lege5.ro/Gratuit/g44tmmzz/decretul-nr-141-1987-privind-conferirea-ordinului-victoria-socialismului-tovarasului-erich-honecker-secretar-general-al-comitetului-central-al-partidului-socialist-unit-din-germania-presedintele-consi|title=Decretul nr. 141/1987 privind conferirea ordinului Victoria Socialismului tovarasului Erich Honecker, secretar general al Comitetului Central al Partidului Socialist Unit din Germania, presedintele Consiliului de Stat al Republicii Democrate Germane|newspaper=Indaco lege 5|date=25 August 1987|lang=ro|access-date=3 July 2023}}</ref>
*{{flag|Soviet Union}}:
**[[File:Hero of the USSR Gold Star.png|40x40px]] [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] (1982)<ref name=":2"/>
**[[File:Order of Lenin ribbon bar.png|40x40px]] [[Order of Lenin]], thrice (1972, 1982, 1987)<ref name=":2"/>
**[[File:Order october revolution rib.png|40x40px]] [[Order of the October Revolution]] (1977)<ref name=":2"/>
**[[File:CombatCooperationRibbon.png|40x40px]] [[Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"]] (1980)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/podvig-nagrada_in_kartoteka1561719025/?backurl=%2Fheroes%2F%3Fstatic_hash%3Dba6caabd5dbb5e4a111e964d34f0ed3bv1%26last_name%3D%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%26first_name%3D%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85%26data_vibitiya_period%3Don%26group%3Dall%26types%3Dpamyat_commander%3Anagrady_nagrad_doc%3Anagrady_uchet_kartoteka%3Anagrady_ubilein_kartoteka%3Apdv_kart_in%3Apdv_kart_in_inostranec%3Apamyat_voenkomat%3Apotery_vpp%3Apamyat_zsp_parts%3Akld_ran%3Akld_bolezn%3Akld_polit%3Akld_upk%3Akld_vmf%3Apotery_doneseniya_o_poteryah%3Apotery_gospitali%3Apotery_utochenie_poter%3Apotery_spiski_zahoroneniy%3Apotery_voennoplen%3Apotery_iskluchenie_iz_spiskov%3Apotery_kartoteki%3Apotery_rvk_extra%3Apotery_isp_extra%3Asame_doroga%26page%3D1%26grouppersons%3D1|title=Эрих Хонеккер|newspaper=pamyat-naroda.ru|access-date=3 July 2023|archive-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926075130/https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/podvig-nagrada_in_kartoteka1561719025/?backurl=%2Fheroes%2F%3Fstatic_hash%3Dba6caabd5dbb5e4a111e964d34f0ed3bv1%26last_name%3D%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%26first_name%3D%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85%26data_vibitiya_period%3Don%26group%3Dall%26types%3Dpamyat_commander%3Anagrady_nagrad_doc%3Anagrady_uchet_kartoteka%3Anagrady_ubilein_kartoteka%3Apdv_kart_in%3Apdv_kart_in_inostranec%3Apamyat_voenkomat%3Apotery_vpp%3Apamyat_zsp_parts%3Akld_ran%3Akld_bolezn%3Akld_polit%3Akld_upk%3Akld_vmf%3Apotery_doneseniya_o_poteryah%3Apotery_gospitali%3Apotery_utochenie_poter%3Apotery_spiski_zahoroneniy%3Apotery_voennoplen%3Apotery_iskluchenie_iz_spiskov%3Apotery_kartoteki%3Apotery_rvk_extra%3Apotery_isp_extra%3Asame_doroga%26page%3D1%26grouppersons%3D1|url-status=live}}</ref>
**[[File:SU Medal In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ribbon.svg|40x40px]] [[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"]] (1969)
**Honorary citizen of the city of [[Magnitogorsk]], [[Chelyabinsk Oblast]] (1989)<ref name=":2"/>
*{{flag|Vietnam}}
** [[File:Vietnam Hochiminh Order ribbon.png|40x40px]] [[Order of Ho Chi Minh]]

* {{Flagcountry|YUG}}:
** [[File:Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star Rib.png|40x40px]] [[Order of the Yugoslav Great Star]] (1974)

*{{flag|International Olympic Committee}}:
**[[File:Olympic Order gold ribbon.svg|40x40px]] [[Olympic Order]] (1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1095739/erich-honecker-olympic-order-auctioned|title=Olympic Order awarded to former East German leader Honecker up for auction|first=Duncan|last=Mackay|date=27 June 2020|newspaper=Inside the Games|access-date=3 July 2020}}</ref>