Erich Honecker

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Erich Honecker - former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (1976-1989). This person is the 4294^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 269^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Erich Honecker” in German Wikipedia has 98.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 119 references and 33 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 892^nd most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 546^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 269^th most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6854^th most popular in AI.

The 4294^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 1024^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Erich Honecker” was edited by 2 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Erich Honecker”, its content was written by 713 registered users of German Wikipedia (546^th place) and edited by 3043 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6854^th place).

Erich Honecker is on the 269^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 4294^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1236 times in German Wikipedia (9406^th place) and cited 8209 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #69 in September 2001
• Global: #1020 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #46 in March 2022
• Global: #2699 in March 2022

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Erich Honecker		98.9003
2	Portuguese (pt) Erich Honecker		98.0777
3	English (en) Erich Honecker		97.0234
4	Slovenian (sl) Erich Honecker		66.5554
5	Catalan (ca) Erich Honecker		64.2828
6	Russian (ru) Хонеккер, Эрих		57.8999
7	Spanish (es) Erich Honecker		56.0031
8	Vietnamese (vi) Erich Honecker		54.1511
9	Italian (it) Erich Honecker		51.362
10	Azerbaijani (az) Erix Honekker		49.4669

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Erich Honecker		7 509 733
2	English (en) Erich Honecker		4 718 501
3	Russian (ru) Хонеккер, Эрих		1 220 668
4	Spanish (es) Erich Honecker		890 342
5	Japanese (ja) エーリッヒ・ホーネッカー		764 429
6	French (fr) Erich Honecker		729 414
7	Italian (it) Erich Honecker		635 039
8	Polish (pl) Erich Honecker		595 446
9	Chinese (zh) 埃里希·昂纳克		362 287
10	Dutch (nl) Erich Honecker		357 764

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Erich Honecker		28 926
2	English (en) Erich Honecker		27 719
3	Russian (ru) Хонеккер, Эрих		6 684
4	Spanish (es) Erich Honecker		3 513
5	Japanese (ja) エーリッヒ・ホーネッカー		3 444
6	French (fr) Erich Honecker		2 717
7	Polish (pl) Erich Honecker		2 364
8	Italian (it) Erich Honecker		2 261
9	Chinese (zh) 埃里希·昂纳克		2 162
10	Czech (cs) Erich Honecker		1 167

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Erich Honecker		713
2	English (en) Erich Honecker		460
3	French (fr) Erich Honecker		165
4	Russian (ru) Хонеккер, Эрих		150
5	Spanish (es) Erich Honecker		143
6	Italian (it) Erich Honecker		137
7	Dutch (nl) Erich Honecker		104
8	Japanese (ja) エーリッヒ・ホーネッカー		101
9	Chinese (zh) 埃里希·昂纳克		96
10	Norwegian (no) Erich Honecker		77

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Erich Honecker		2
2	Hebrew (he) אריך הונקר		2
3	Catalan (ca) Erich Honecker		1
4	Czech (cs) Erich Honecker		1
5	English (en) Erich Honecker		1
6	Italian (it) Erich Honecker		1
7	Simple English (simple) Erich Honecker		1
8	Swedish (sv) Erich Honecker		1
9	Turkish (tr) Erich Honecker		1
10	Arabic (ar) إريش هونيكر		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information