The title Hero of Labor (german: Held der Arbeit) was awarded by the

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for supporting the socialist economy, usually by increasing factory output or agricultural yields. It was instituted on 19 April 1950 and was limited to 50 awards per year. A cash prize of up to 10,000

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s was linked to each award.

Recipients

Hermann Axen Hermann Axen (6 March 1916 – 15 February 1992) was a German political activist who became involved in political resistance during the twelve Nazi years, most of which he spent in state detention. After the war he became a national politician ...

* Franz Dahlem * Fritz Dallmann * Luise Ermisch *

Kurt Hager Kurt Hager (24 July 1912 – 18 September 1998) was an East German statesman, a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany who was known as the chief ideologist of the party and decided many cultural and educational policies in the German ...

Horst Heintze Horst Heintze (15 August 1927 – 14 December 1997) was a German trades union official and politician. Through the union movement he rose to become a member of the People's Chamber (''Volkskammer'') in the German Democratic Republic and, from ...

Adolf Hennecke Adolf Hennecke, (25 March 1905 in Meggen (Lennestadt) – 22 February 1975 in East Berlin) was an official of the German FDGB (''Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund'') and of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He gave his name to the Hennecke mo ...

Margot Honecker Margot Honecker (née Feist; 17 April 1927 – 6 May 2016) was an East German politician who was an influential member of that country's Communist government until 1989. From 1963 until 1989, she was Minister of National Education (''Ministerin f ...

Erich Mielke Erich Fritz Emil Mielke (; 28 December 1907 – 21 May 2000) was a German communist official who served as head of the East German Ministry for State Security (''Ministerium für Staatsicherheit'' – MfS), better known as the Stasi, from 1957 u ...

Günter Mittag Günter Mittag (8 October 1926 – 18 March 1994) was a German member of parliament, secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), and a central figure in East Germany's command economy. Biography Born to a working-class family in St ...

Willi Stoph Wilhelm Stoph (9 July 1914 – 13 April 1999) was a German politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1964 to 1973, and again from 1976 until 1989. He ...

* Josef Wenig * Ernst Wulf *

Solveig Leo Solveig Leo (born November 1943) is a German farmer and politician who served as Mayor of Banzkow from 1992 to 2009. Biography Leo was born in 1943 in Nazi-occupied Sudetenland. In the aftermath of the war, she and her family were relocated to ...

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List of people awarded the Hero of Labour
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Recipients

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