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Scharnhorst Order

highest military decoration of the GDR (1966-1990)
Intangible Order Q509737

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
order, military decoration[3]
Inception
February 17, 1966[5]
Country
East Germany[2]
Conferred by
Council of Ministers of the GDR, Chairman of the National Defence Council of the GDR, National People's Army[6][7][8]
Described by source
Auszeichnungen der DDR von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (1 ed.)[9]
Named after
Gerhard von Scharnhorst[4]
Native label
Scharnhorst-Orden[11]
Next higher rank
Banner of Labor[13]
Next lower rank
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"[12]
Topic has template
Template:Scharnhorst Order[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Scharnhorst Order ar نيشان شارنهورست cs Scharnhorstův řád da Scharnhorst-ordenen de Scharnhorst-Orden el Τάγμα του Σάρνχορστ fr ordre de Scharnhorst he מסדר שרנהורסט hu Scharnhorst-rend it ordine di Scharnhorst ja シャルンホルスト勲章 nl Scharnhorst-Orde pl Order Scharnhorsta pt Ordem de Scharnhorst ru орден Шарнхорста sv Scharnhorstorden
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bartel0012c2.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0bm93jr
Museum-digital tag ID
86320
TracesOfWar award ID
5617

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🔗 Connections
Awarded to 30
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Dmitriy Ustinov, Willi Stoph, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Erich Mielke, Viktor Kulikov, Vasily Petrov, Sergey Gorshkov +22 more
Instance of 2
order, military decoration
Category for recipients of this award 1
Category:Recipients of the Scharnhorst Order
Conferred by 1
National People's Army
Country 1
East Germany
Next higher rank 1
Banner of Labor
Next lower rank 1
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Recipients of the Scharnhorst Order
← FactGrid item ID 1
Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt
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Summary

Scharnhorst Order is an order[1].

Related Entities

Dmitriy Ustinov Erich Mielke Mirosław Hermaszewski Sergey Gorshkov Vasily Petrov Viktor Kulikov Willi Stoph Wojciech Jaruzelski

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Class ancestry

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  1. 8w ago · Toghrul R · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Next lower rank → Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
    Conferred by → Council of Ministers of the GDR, Chairman of the National Defence Council of the GDR, National People's Army
    Category for recipients of this award → Category:Recipients of the Scharnhorst Order
    Instance of → order, military decoration
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