title: Honoured Doctor of the People
text: # Honoured Doctor of the People
  
  Honoured Doctor of the People (German: Verdienter Arzt des Volkes) was the highest honorary title awarded to physicians in East Germany. It was given in form of a medal. The title was stablished on 31 March 1949 and awarded every year on 11 December, the birthday of Robert Koch.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Bundesministerium für innerdeutsche Beziehungen (Hrsg.): DDR-Handbuch, Auszeichnungen, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1985, S. 26 und 29, ISBN 3804686427.
  * Andreas Herbst, Winfried Ranke, Jürgen R. Winkler: So funktionierte die DDR, Lexikon der Organisationen und Institutionen; Gesundheitswesen, Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 1994, ISBN 3499163489.
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