page_title: Edmund Stoiber
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Edmund Stoiber / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Edmund Stoiber während der Verleihung des Orden wider den tierischen Ernst des Aachener Karnevalsvereins, März 2000
context_page_description: Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber is a German politician who served as the 16th Minister President of the state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union between 1999 and 2007. In 2002 he ran for the office of Chancellor of Germany in the federal election, but in one of the narrowest elections in German history lost against Gerhard Schröder. On 18 January 2007, he announced his decision to step down from the posts of minister-president and party chairman by 30 September, after having been under fire in his own party for weeks.
context_section_description: 1984: Bavarian Order of Merit
  1996: Karl-Valentin-Orden
  1996: Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir
  1999: Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania
  2000: Order against the deadly seriousness
  2002: Commander of the Legion of Honour
  2003: Officer of the Ordre national du Québec
  2004: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  2005: Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria 
  2006: Grand Cross of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  2007: Large Gold Medal of the province of Upper Austria
  2007: Honorary degree awarded by the Sogang University
  2008: Steiger Award
  2009: Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
caption: Edmund Stoiber during the conferment Order against the deadly seriousness, March 2000
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