List of bearers of the title Hero of Labor
This list shows the names of some of the 3700 currently known bearers of the title Hero of Labor and the year they were awarded.

Gustav Huebner 1954
Bearer of the title
- 1950: Luise Ermisch (dressmaker Halle), Hans Garbe (foreman Berlin), Regina Dinger (chemist Halle), Franz Striemann (chair master Cottbus), August Engel (Häuer Mansfeld), Ilse Biesmann (ring spinner Nieder-Schmalkalden), Josef Wenig (Obersteiger ), Artur Springer (chief chemist Ketzschendorf), Kurt Baum (Halle engineer), Heinz Uhlemann (Maurer Zwickau), Georg Scheliga (director Sondershausen), Paul Heine (Leipzig train driver), Ingeborg Endter (ring spinner Nieder-Schmalkalden), Erich Schneider (driver Dresden), Edith Pempel (ring spinner Nieder-Schmalkalden), Ilse Richter (drummer Radeberg)
- 1951: Wilhelm Pieck (President of the GDR), Albert Wilkening (DEFA Babelsberg), Meta Goldberg (Zittau weavers), Joachim Birr (Wolfen chemist), Max Friedemann (Riesa plant director), Frieda Hoffmann (Radeberg worker), Alfons Hörle (Magdeburg site manager ), Felix Stupka (worker Muskau), Franz Reika (miner Mansfeld), Gerhard Opitz (chief accountant Halle / Saale)
- 1952: Charlotte Prasse (Wismut worker), Inge Rahnfeld (Meerane ring spinner), Elfriede Schwede (Leipzig lathe operator), Elisabeth Schüttmann (Dresden clerk), Wally Metscher (Magdeburg electrical welder), Annelies Rüthrich (Berlin instructor), Fritz Schälike (Dietz Publishing Director) Verlag, Berlin), Erich Wendt (Publishing Director Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin), Werner Annemüller ( Plant Manager Schönebeck), Edmund Böhm (Häuer Ölsnitz), Erich Bindseil (Plant Manager Neumark),
- 1953: Erna Sachse (worker),
- 1954: Frida Hockauf (weaver Zittau), Margareta Förster (caster Bitterfeld), Otto Bennecke (farmer Winterfeld), Erich Giebner (miner), Anna Kojetinsky (ring spinner Eisenach), Paul Simon (weaver Werdau)
- 1959 Fritz Dallmann (LPG Chairman Priborn), Luise Marscheider (LPG farmer Bernburg)
- 1960: Bruno Max Leuschner , Emma Müller (cotton spinner Riesa), Lothar Badstübner (Hauer Wismut), Kurt Henker (site manager Berzdorf), Maria Holl (pig master Bölkendorf), Georg Jung (Hauer Wismut), Hugo Müller (miner Eisleben), Kurt Penndorf (Dreher Wildau), Helmut Riedel (Hauer Wismut), Hans Rodenberg (Deputy Minister of Culture), Hans Rommel (Werra Plant Director), Herbert Seidel (Operations Manager Bitterfeld), Erwin Thrun (Holzendorf tractor operator), Herbert Thümmel (Karl-Marx-Stadt instructor ), Bodo Voß (engineer Wittenberge), Willy Wehner (excavator operator Tear), Maria Lück (farmer Nauendorf / Saale), Johannes Döhler (LPG chairman Dahlen / Sachs.), Gerhard Scholz (LPG chairman Warin)
- 1963: Hermann Matern
- 1964: Erich Mielke , Willi Stoph
- 1965: Hermann Axen (SED Politburo)
- 1966: Wolfgang Biermann (General Director)
- 1968: Heinz Lorek, Erich Mielke (Minister)
- 1969: Kurt Hager , Günter Mittag , Hildegard Hähnel (Director of the Dresden Department Store), Margot Honecker , Agathe Peggau (Operations Director Königs Wusterhausen), Solveig Leo (LPG Chairwoman Banzkow), Rudolf Bergander (Prof. Dresden), Alfred Kick (Hauer Wismut) , Gerhard Frost (Prof. Berlin), Herbert Kohlmann (construction worker Berlin)
- 1972: Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt (doctor Berlin)
- 1973: Erich Peppel (shift worker Weimar factory)
- 1974: Anneliese Schütz (head of the children's home “Emil Wrecke”, Anderbeck), Peter Beyer (Brigadier Mansfeldkombinat), Horst Zickler (VEB Sportgerätewerk Schmalkalden), Elisabeth Heinz (VEB Zuckerkombinat “Progress” Zeitz)
- 1975: Horst Dohlus (SED Politburo)
- 1976: Fritz Cremer , sculptor and graphic artist
- Günter Erbach (State Secretary for Physical Culture and Sport of the GDR)
- 1978: Wilhelm Ehrke (tractor operator Anklam ), Gertrud Jakisch (warehouse worker Bad Blankenburg)
- 1979: Willi Stoph
- 1980: Anna Seghers , Albert Stief , Ilse Schröder (tractor operator Gölzau), Brigitte Pläschke (flyer Plauen), Günter Krönert (flight captain), Heinz Bischoff (pipelayer Finow)
- 1982: Markus Wolf
- 1983: Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
- 1984: Frieda Arndt (artificial flower Sebnitz), Käthe Bautz (teacher Berlin), Irma Etzold (worker Berlin), Heinz Brandt (general director), Ingeborg Kachel (shift manager Berlin), Heinz Keßler ( colonel general , from 1985 army general and minister for national defense ), Anita Häußler (Master Berlin), Klaus-Dieter Hoffmann (Hauer Sondershausen), Alfred Schejahn (Shipbuilder Wismar), Ingrid Wetzel ( Calf Carer Bobitz), Christa Simmich (Master Flöha), Werner Beuth (Brigadier at VTK Schwerin), Jutta Müller (Figure skating trainer), Gerhard Stauch (head of the customs administration of the GDR )
- 1985: Otto Arndt
- 1986: Peter Florin (Deputy Minister), Günter Mittag (SED Politburo), Wolfgang Dabel (Schiffbauer Stralsund), Peter Brückner (LPG Chairman Gierstädt), Christa Ecke (Milker Cavertitz), Ingeborg Frank (Brigadier Waltershausen), Peter Friedrich (Master Leipzig), Brigitte Groeger (Hotel Director Suhl), Gerda Heller (Operations Director Arnstadt), Angelika Theel (Plant Operator Berlin), Wolfgang Heyl (Deputy CDU Chairman), Ursula Müller (Tailor Wittgensdorf), Jürgen Fuchs (Brigadier Berlin), Edeltraut Filz (agricultural engineer Groß Rosenburg), Ulrich Dassow (plant operator Guben), Ulrich Fliege (LPG chairman Oßmannstedt)
- 1988: Hans Rudolf Gestewitz
- 1989: Till Schairer , Stefan Meisner , Martin Kirn , Pauline Handel
swell
- Daily review v. October 14, 1950
- New Germany v. October 14, 1951
- Daily review v. October 14, 1952
- Daily review v. October 14, 1954
- Woman of Today No. 43 BC October 24, 1952
- New Germany v. February 22, 1959
- New Germany v. October 8, 1960
- New Germany v. December 10, 1960
- New Germany v. 5th October 1969
- New Germany v. October 9, 1978
- New Germany v. October 8, 1980
- New Germany v. 8/9 October 1983
- New Germany v. May 22, 1984
- New Germany v. 3rd October 1984
- New Germany v. October 8, 1986
- New Germany v. October 8, 1988
- The People's Chamber of the GDR (handbooks 3rd to 9th electoral period), Staatsverlag der DDR Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ High state awards given. Honorary title "Hero of Work". In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).