Order of the White Double Cross

The Order of the White Double Cross ( Slovak wheel Bieleho dvojkríža ) was founded in 1994 and is one of the highest awards in Slovakia. The President of the Slovak Republic gives the order only to foreigners who have rendered outstanding services to Slovakia.

Order of classes

The Order is divided into two Department of civil and military merits with three classes, with the highest ranking the 1st class is:

  • 1st Class
  • 2nd class
  • 3rd class

Order decoration

Awardees

1st Class

  • Ricardo Escobar, 2001
  • Max van der Stoel, 2001
  • Emile Lahoud, 2001
  • Milan Kučan, 2001
  • Carl XVI. Gustaf, 2002
  • Juan Carlos I, 2002
  • Ion Iliescu, 2002
  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 2002
  • Henri of Luxembourg, 2002
  • Koloman Sokol, 2003
  • Václav Havel, 2003
  • Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, 2003
  • Janez Drnovšek, 2003
  • Askar Akayev, 2003
  • Günter Verheugen, 2004
  • Heliodor Píka, in memoriam, 2004
  • Tarja Halonen, 2005

2nd class

  • Eugene Cernan, 1994
  • Karol Střmen, 1996
  • Michael John Novak, 1996
  • Michael Perrin, 1996
  • Sergei Vladimirovich Jastrschembsk, 1996
  • René Victor Francs, 1996
  • Filip Šedivý, 1996
  • Mihai Dinucu, 1996
  • Maximilian Pammer, 1996
  • Thang Zhanqing, 1996
  • Denis Banneel, 1996
  • Theodore Russell, 1996
  • Leo Danihels, 1996
  • Ivica Tomič, 1997
  • Aydin Sahinbas, 1997
  • Jerzy Korolec, 1997
  • Heike Zenker, 1997
  • Koloman Sokol, 1997
  • Georgios Zavvos, 1997
  • Edita Gruber, 1997
  • Ermanno Squadrilli, 1997
  • Ján Papánek, in memoriam, 1997
  • Josef Švejcar, in memoriam, 1997
  • Emanuel Böhm, in memoriam, 1997
  • Ludwig Hoffmann von Rumerstein, 1998
  • Andrzej Majkowski, 1998
  • Luigi Dossena, 1998
  • Ralph R. Johnson, 1998
  • Jean -Philippe Dovin, 1998
  • Helmut Liedermann, 1998
  • Hugo Gaius Scheltema, 1998
  • Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, 1998
  • Jeno Boros, 1998
  • John L. Mica, 1998
  • Herbert Neumayer, 1998
  • John Karch, 1998
  • Paul Girod, 1998
  • Benjamin A. Gilman, 1999
  • Ludger Buerstedd, 1999
  • Tchao - Miao - Fao, 1999
  • Tomáš Bata, 1999
  • Albert Turot, 1999
  • Nurettin Nurkan, 2000
  • Lal thing Liana, 2000
  • Vassilios Ikkossipentarchos, 2001
  • Gheorghe Dinica, 2001
  • Jose Wilson Siguera Camposo, 2001
  • Jani Milčakov, 2001
  • William V. Roth Jr, 2001
  • Wolfgang Roth, 2001
  • Egone Ratzenberger, 2001
  • Štefan Osuský, 2001
  • Gjuro Dezelic, 2001
  • Estanislao de Grandes Pascual, 2002
  • Jean -Louis Tauran, 2002
  • Alexander Georgijević Akseňonok, 2002
  • Miklós Boros, 2002
  • Henk W. J. Soeters, 2002
  • Vladimir Yakovlev Anatoljevich, 2002
  • Frank Lambach, 2002
  • Fernand Halbart, 2002
  • Georges Vaugier, 2003
  • Karl Peter Wilhelm, 2003
  • Komornicki January, 2003
  • Yuan Guises, 2003
  • Viktor Volodymyrovyč Medvedčuk, 2004
  • Luca Del Balzo di Presenzano, 2004
  • Yuri Olexandrovič Rylač, 2004
  • Eric van der Linden, 2004
  • Stan Mikita, 2004
  • Rudolf Slansky, 2004
  • František Bím, 2004
  • Alois Kubíček, 2004
  • John Edwin Mroz, 2005
  • Guillaume of Luxembourg, 2005
  • Weißgerber, 2005
  • Uta Mayer scarf Castle, 2005
  • Miroslav Kopečný, 2005
  • Martin Bollendorf, 2006
  • Louis Laurent Stokvis, 2006
  • Henryk Józef Nowacki, 2007
  • Rodolphe Vallee, 2007
  • Ondrej Štefanko, 2008
  • Gregor Papuček, 2008
  • Jozef Čongva, 2009
  • Alexander Ivanovich Udaľcov, 2010
  • Georgy Afanasjevič Zverev, 2010
  • Vladimír Romanovic Lebedev, 2010
  • Alexander Michajlovič Fadin, 2010
  • Sonja of Norway, 2010
  • Walter Greschner, 2011
  • Erhard Busek, 2011
  • Władysław Bartoszewski, 2012
  • Willy Spühler, in memoriam, 2012
  • Hans -Dietrich Genscher, 2013
  • Bartholomew I, 2013

3rd class

  • Paul Frederick of Mr. Fuhr, 1998
  • Julian N. Niemczyk, 1998
  • Zenon Bryk, 1998
  • Henryk Kuč, 1998
  • Janusz Siatkowski, 1998
  • Komornicki January, 1998
  • Marek Grela, 1998
  • Jerzy Chmielewski, 1998
  • Wojciech Czajka, 1998
  • Norbert Kinski, 1998
  • Emil Wagner, 1998
  • Wendy W. Luersová, 1998
  • Meda Mládková, 1998
  • Jacek Baluch, 1998
  • Jadwiga Podrygallo, 1998
  • Zuzana Chalupová, 2000
  • Michal Duger, 2000
  • Weißgerber, 2000
  • Lena Jeger, 2001
  • Daniel Compagnoni, 2001
  • Anton Hruby, 2001
  • Peter Paulíček, 2001
  • Tuletai Suleimenov, 2001
  • Walter Rochel, 2001
  • Josef Byrtus, 2002
  • Malikus Suamin, 2002
  • Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, 2002
  • George Koch, 2003
  • Magdalena Hajóssyová, 2003
  • Hervé Marseille, 2003
  • Margaret Huberová, 2003
  • Otto Sagner, 2004
  • Bernard Schreier, 2004
  • Ivan Black, 2005
  • Gerard Hendrik Steen Meulen, 2005
  • Derek W. Bowett, 2005
  • Toyojiro Soejima, 2005
  • Alain Pellet, 2006
  • Ryszard Siwiec, 2006
  • Walter D. Sohier, 2007
  • Stephen McCaffrey, 2007
  • Arthur Watts, 2007
  • Samuel S. Wordsworth, 2007
  • Corneliu Barborica, 2007
  • Joe Veselsky, 2007
  • Eduard Kabát, 2008
  • Ailsa Rosemary May Domanova, 2009
  • Gila Fatranová, 2010
  • Juraj Fatran, 2010
  • Ludomir Molitoris, 2013
  • Anna Ištvánová, 2014
Aleksander Kwaśniewski Fernando Henrique Cardoso Ricardo Lagos Émile Lahoud Jorge Sampaio Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark William V. Roth, Jr.
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