List of holders of the Austrian Decoration of Honor and the Austrian Crosses of Honor for Science and Art

This list includes people who have been awarded the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art or one of the two Austrian Crosses of Honor for Science and Art or its predecessor, the (kuk) Decoration of Honor for Art and Science . A - partly incomplete - list can be found here:

Sorting takes place according to the year of award (if known) and within the year according to the last name.

Decoration of Honor for Art and Science (1887–1918)

(Selection)

On the day the list of honor was created, the following were awarded:

• Heinrich von Angeli , Viennese painter (1887)
• Alfred von Arneth , Director of the House, Court and State Archives (1887)
• Gyula Benczúr , Hungarian Master School of Painting (1887)
• Joseph Hyrtl , Viennese anatomist (1887)
• Jan Matejko , Polish painter (1887)
• Franz Miklosich , Slovenian philologist (1887)
• Michael Munkácsy , Hungarian painter (1887)
• Theodor von Sickel , historian (1887)

Among those who were later awarded were:

• Johannes Brahms , composer (1896)
• Queen Elisabeth of Romania , poet (1896), with diamonds
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , writer (1899)
• Heinrich Lammasch , international lawyer, last Imperial and Royal Prime Minister (1912)

Austrian Decoration of Honor for Art and Science (1935–1938)

• Heinrich von Srbik , historian (1936)
• Paula Grogger , writer (1936)
• Karl Schönherr , doctor and writer (1937)
• Otto Tressler , actor (1937)
• Gerhart Hauptmann , writer (1937)
• Joseph Georg Oberkofler , lawyer, narrator and poet (1938)
• Josef Friedrich Perkonig

Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (since 1955)

• Wolfgang Denk , surgeon (1957)
• Franz Karl Ginzkey , poet and writer (1957)
• Clemens Holzmeister , architect (1957)
• Rudolf Kassner , writer and cultural philosopher (1957)
• Alfred Kubin , graphic artist and writer (1957)
• Joseph Marx , composer and music teacher (1957)
• Richard Meister , classical philologist and teacher (1957)
• Erwin Schrödinger , physicist (1957)
• Karl Federhofer , civil engineer (1958)
• Martin Gusinde , anthropologist (1958)
• Ferdinand Kadecka , lawyer and political scientist (1958)
• Theodor Litt , philosopher (1958)
• Leopold Schönbauer , surgeon (1958)
• Erich Tschermak-Seysenegg , botanist (1958)
• Lorenz Böhler , surgeon (1959)
• Carl Jacob Burckhardt , historian and essayist (1959)
• Carl Ferdinand Cori , doctor and physiologist (1959)
• Wilhelm Havers , linguist (1959)
• Victor Franz Hess , physicist (1959)
• Josef Keil , historian (1959)
• Hans Lieb , chemist and physician (1959)
• Otto Loewi , pharmacologist (1959)
• Ernst Melan , structural engineer (1959)
• Max Mell , writer (1959)
• Hugo Rahner , theologian (1959)
• Theodor Rittler , lawyer and political scientist (1959)
• Bruno Sander , geologist (1959)
• Alfred Verdroß-Droßberg , diplomat and writer (1959)
• Thornton Wilder , writer (1959)
• David Wirth , Veterinarian (1959)
• Karl von Frisch , zoologist (1960)
• Karl Ginhart , art historian (1960)
• Fritz Feigl , chemist (1961)
• Ludwig Flamm , physicist (1961)
• Georg Hohmann , surgeon (1961)
• Herbert von Karajan , conductor (1961)
• Hans Kelsen , lawyer (1961)
• Richard Johann Kuhn , chemist (1961)
• Rudolf Laun , international lawyer (1961)
• Felix Machatschki , mineralogist (1961)
• Ivan Meštrović , sculptor (1961)
• Leo Santifaller , historian and diplomat (1961)
• Bruno Walter , conductor (1961)
• Felix Weihs de Weldon , sculptor (1961)
• Herbert Lamprecht , biologist (1962)
• Ludwig von Mises , economist (1962)
• Bernhard Paumgartner , conductor and composer (1962)
• Edmund Hlawka , mathematician (1963)
• Hans Knappertsbusch , conductor (1963)
• Otto Strasser , musician (1963)
• Herbert Boeckl , painter (1964)
• Adolf Butenandt , biochemist (1964)
• Hermine Cloeter , writer (1964)
• Otto Kratky , chemist (1964)
• Josef Laurenz Kunz , lawyer (1964)
• Albin Lesky , classical philologist (1964)
• Konrad Lorenz , behavioral scientist (1964)
• Josef Mattauch , physicist (1964)
• Wacław Olszak , mechanics (1964)
• Percy Ernst Schramm , historian (1964)
• Franz Theodor Csokor , playwright (1965)
• Erich Schmid , physicist (1965)
• Felix Braun , poet and playwright (1966)
• Johann Nepomuk David , composer (1966)
• Ludwig von Ficker , writer and publisher (1966)
• Hermann F. Mark , chemist (1966)
• Albert Paris Gütersloh , painter and writer (1967)
• Lise Meitner , nuclear physicist (1967)
• Max Ferdinand Perutz , chemist (1967)
• Karl Heinrich Waggerl , writer (1967)
• Alexander Lernet-Holenia , playwright and poet (1968)
• Johannes Messner , theologian (1968)
• Carl Zuckmayer , writer (1968)
• Franz Nabl , writer (1969)
• Alfred Wickenburg , painter and graphic artist (1969)
• Karl Böhm , conductor (1970)
• Erich Schenk , musicologist (1970)
• Robert Stolz , composer and conductor (1970)
• Herbert Trenkler , mining scientist (1970)
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , physicist (1970)
• Carl Julius Haidvogel , writer (1971)
• Rudolf Henz , writer (1971)
• Max Kaser , lawyer (1971)
• Victor-Lucien Tapié , historian (1971)
• Egon Wellesz , composer and music researcher (1971)
• Fritz Wotruba , architect and artist (1971)
• Tassilo Antoine , gynecologist (1972)
• Elias Canetti , writer (1972)
• Otto Jungmair , writer, linguist, dialect poet (1972)
• Otto Neugebauer , mathematician (1972)
• Wolfgang Schadewaldt , literary scholar (1972)
• Fritz Schachermeyr , ancient historian (1972)
• Hans H. Weber , physician (1972)
• Jerzy Kuryłowicz , linguist (1973)
• Feodor Lynen , biochemist (1973)
• Heinz Maier-Leibnitz , physicist (1973)
• Leopold Vietoris , mathematician (1973)
• Alvar Aalto , architect (1974)
• Boris Blacher , composer (1974)
• Albert Defant , meteorologist (1974)
• Gottfried von Eine , composer (1974)
• Friedrich August von Hayek , economist (1974)
• Giacomo Manzù , sculptor (1974)
• Carl Orff , composer (1974)
• Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch , composer (1974)
• Hans Swarowsky , conductor (1974)
• Andreas Alföldi , ancient historian (1975)
• Otto Demus , art historian (1975)
• Ernst Hadorn , geneticist (1975)
• Ernst Krenek , composer (1975)
• Helmut Leherb , artist (1975)
• Kurt Mothes , botanist (1975)
• Ilse Pompe-Niederführ , Austrian sculptor (1975)
• Bruno Snell , philologist (1975)
• Emil Staiger , theologian (1975)
• Hans Tuppy , biochemist (1975)
• Leonard Bernstein , composer and conductor (1976)
• Géza von Cziffra , film director and screenwriter (1976)
• Manfred Eigen , chemist (1976)
• Siegfried Freiberg , writer (1976)
• Karl Plattner , painter (1976)
• Friedrich Torberg , writer and translator (1976)
• Friedrich Kainz , philosopher of language (1977)
• Ernst Schönwiese , writer (1977)
• Kurt Bittel , prehistorian (1978)
• Henry Moore , sculptor and draftsman (1978)
• Hans Nowotny , chemist (1978)
• Roland Rainer , architect (1979)
• Max Weiler , artist (1979)
• Otto Stefferl , graphic and postage stamp artist (1979)
• Helmut Zahn , chemist (1979)
• George Balanchine , choreographer (1980)
• Christine Busta , poet (1980)
• Friedrich Heer , writer (1980)
• Fritz Hochwälder , writer (1980)
• Nathan Milstein , violinist (1980)
• Karl Popper , philosopher and scientific theorist (1980)
• Marcel Rubin , composer (1980)
• Alfred Uhl , composer (1980)
• Werner Berg , painter (1981)
• Viktor Frankl , neurologist and psychiatrist (1981)
• Gertrud Fussenegger , writer (1981)
• Hans Gál , composer (1981)
• Herbert Hunger , Byzantinist (1981)
• Hans List , engine developer (1981)
• Jacqueline de Romilly , philologist (1981)
• Victor Weisskopf , physicist (1981)
• Pierre Boulez , composer and conductor (1983)
• Friedrich Heppner , neurosurgeon (1983)
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , biochemist (1983)
• Willibald Jentschke , physicist (1983)
• Anselm Franz , aviation pioneer (1984)
• Ernst Gombrich , art historian (1984)
• Joannis Avramidis , sculptor and painter (1985)
• Erika Mitterer , writer (1985)
• Otto Pächt , art historian (1985)
• Manfred Mayrhofer , linguist (1986)
• Friederike Mayröcker , writer (1987)
• György Ligeti , composer (1987)
• Heinrich Appelt , historian and diplomat (1989)
• Heinrich Fichtenau , historian and diplomat (1989)
• Albert Drach , writer (1990)
• Aldo van Eyck , architect (1990)
• Karl Heinz Füssl , composer (1990)
• Hans Hollein , architect (1990)
• Ernst Jandl , writer (1990)
• Ernst Kitzinger , art historian (1990)
• Gerhart B. Ladner , historian (1990)
• Hans Mayer , writer (1990)
• Josef Mikl , painter (1990)
• HC Artmann , writer (1991)
• John Chadwick , philologist and cryptologist (1992)
• Franz Hubmann , photo journalist and author (1992)
• Walter Jens , writer (1992)
• Krzysztof Penderecki , composer and conductor (1992)
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , architect (1992)
• Peter Schuster , chemist (1992)
• Walter Thirring , physicist (1992)
• Albert Eschenmoser , chemist (1993)
• Eduard Goldstücker , writer (1993)
• Carlos Kleiber , conductor (1993)
• Albrecht Schöne , philologist (1993)
• Günther Wilke , chemist (1993)
• Erwin Chargaff , chemist and essayist (1994)
• Horst Hajek , clarinetist and university professor (1994)
• Theo Mayer-Maly , legal historian (1994)
• Alfred Schnittke , composer (1995)
• Siegfried Josef Bauer , meteorologist and geophysicist (1996)
• Bruno Gironcoli , sculptor (1996)
• Claude Simon , writer (1996)
• Horst Stein , conductor (1996)
• Hermann Bondi , physicist (1997)
• Albrecht Dihle , classical philologist (1997)
• Hans Hass , natural scientist (1997)
• Vassos Karageorghis , archaeologist (1997)
• Peter Noever , designer (1997)
• Kurt Schwertsik , composer (1997)
• George Tabori , director and writer (1997)
• Robert Walter , lawyer (1997)
• Herbert Willi , composer (1997)
• Helmut Denk , pathologist (1998)
• György Kurtág , composer (1998)
• Carl Pruscha , architect (1998)
• Karl Acham , sociologist (1999)
• Walter Kohn , physicist (1999)
• Elisabeth Lichtenberger , natural scientist (1999)
• Claus-Christian Schuster , pianist (1999)
• Gerardo Broggini , lawyer (2000)
• Markus Prachensky , painter and graphic artist (2000)
• Herwig Wolfram , historian (2000)
• Anton Zeilinger , physicist (2001)
• Eugen Biser , religious philosopher (2002)
• Horst Dreier , legal philosopher (2002)
• Fritz Riedl , artist (2002)
• Elliott Lieb , physicist and mathematician (2002)
• Hermann Fillitz , historian (2003)
• Wolfgang M. Schmidt , mathematician (2003)
• Klaus Wolff , physician (2004)
• Georg Baselitz , painter, graphic artist and sculptor (2005)
• Louise Bourgeois , sculptor (2005)
• Friedrich Cerha , composer and conductor (2005)
• Charles Correa , architect (2005)
• Valie Export , multimedia artist (2005)
• Bruno Ganz , actor (2005)
• Zaha Hadid , architect (2005)
• Václav Havel , writer and President of the Czech Republic (2005)
• Eric Kandel , Medical Doctor (2005)
• Anselm Kiefer , painter and sculptor (2005)
• Peter Kubelka , filmmaker (2005)
• Maria Lassnig , painter (2005)
• Oscar Niemeyer , architect (2005)
• Peter Palese , microbiologist (2005)
• Karl Prantl , sculptor (2005)
• Eduard Sekler , architect (2005)
• Peter Sloterdijk , philosopher and writer (2005)
• Pierre Soulages , painter (2005)
• Christian Meier , historian (2006)
• Stephen Toulmin , philosopher (2006)
• Michael Mitterauer , economic and social historian (2007)
• Heinrich J. Pölzl , painter (2007)
• Marina Abramović , performance artist (2008)
• Nobuyoshi Araki , author and filmmaker (2008)
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt , conductor and music writer (2008)
• Jonas Mekas , filmmaker (2008)
• Helmut Lang , fashion designer (2009)
• Wolf D. Prix , architect (2009)
• Gottfried Schatz , biochemist (2009)
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , biologist (2009)
• Klaus Olaf von Klitzing , physicist (2009)
• Oleh Hornykiewicz , pharmacologist (2010)
• Elfie Semotan , photographer (2011)
• Franz West , visual artist (2011)
• Ernst Fehr , economist (2012)
• Ian Hacking , Philosopher (2012)
• Rebecca Horn , sculptor, filmmaker, action artist (2012)
• Martha Jungwirth , painter (2012)
• Claudio Magris , Germanist (2012)
• Michael Haneke , film director and screenwriter (2013)
• Gerhard Rühm , writer, composer and visual artist (2013)
• Barbara Hohn , molecular biologist (2013)
• Bruno Buchberger , mathematician (2014)
• Abbas Kiarostami , director (2014)
• Arvo Pärt , composer (2015)
• Helmut Rauch , nuclear physicist (2015)
• Oswald Oberhuber , painter, sculptor, graphic artist (2016)
• Eric Owen Moss , architect (2016)
• Martin Karplus , chemist (2016)
• Manfred Burgstaller , legal scholar (2016)
• Michel Houellebecq , writer (2017)
• Emmanuelle Charpentier , molecular biologist (2018)
• Helga Leitner , geographer (2018)
• Lorraine Daston , science historian (2019)
• Franz Koglmann , jazz musician and composer (2019)
• Eva Schlegel , artist (2019)
• Thom Mayne , architect (2019)
• Kiki Smith , artist (2019)
• Patti Smith , poet, punk and rock musician, singer-songwriter, photographer and painter (2019)
• Olga Neuwirth , composer (2019)

Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class (since 1955)

• OW Fischer , actor (1960)
• Andreas Posch , theologian and historian (1960)
• Gustav Stratil-Sauer , geographer (1960)
• Günther Baszel , painter and sculptor (1961)
• Marco Frank , violist, composer and music teacher (1961)
• Hans Ledwinka , vehicle designer (1961)
• Ernst Lothar , writer and director (1961)
• Anton Werkgartner , forensic doctor (1962)
• Stefan Greif , internist (1962)
• Rochus Kohlbach , theologian, writer and art historian (1962)
• Josef Meinrad , actor (1963)
• Otto Tressler , actor (1963)
• Ferdinand Weinhandl , philosopher and university professor (1963)
• Paula Wessely , actress (1963)
• Hans Jaray , actor, director and writer (1964)
• Fritz Judtmann , architect and set designer (1964)
• Erich Schulze , association official, board member and general director of GEMA (1965)
• Fritz Skorzeny , composer and music critic (1965)
• Adolfo Winternitz , painter, sculptor and graphic artist (1966)
• Otto Strasser , musician (1967)
• Maria Augusta Trapp , singer and writer (1967)
• Karl Josef Walter , composer and cathedral organist (1967)
• Hugo Ellenberger , popular educator, writer and university lecturer (1968)
• Friedrich Torberg , writer and translator (1968)
• Imma Bodmershof , writer (1969)
• Friedrich Sacher , poet, narrator and essayist (1970)
• Eduard Sekler , architect (1970)
• Viktor Hammer , sculptor (1973)
• Rudolf Schmidt , sculptor and art historian (1973)
• Peter Alexander , singer and actor (1974)
• Johann Karl Egli , theologian (1974)
• Paul Hörbiger , actor (1974)
• Marcel Rubin , composer (1974)
• Johannes Bischko , physician (1975)
• Walther Birkmayer , neurologist, psychiatrist and university professor (1975)
• Robert Krapfenbauer , civil engineer (1975)
• Siegmund Prey , geologist (1975)
• Hugo Huppert , poet, prose writer, essayist, critic and translator (1977)
• Walter Koschatzky , art historian (1977)
• Viktor Luithlen , musicologist (1977)
• Wolfgang Rehm , musicologist (1977)
• Gusti Wolf , actress (1977)
• Olga Taussky-Todd , mathematician (1978)
• Walter Wunderlich , mathematician and geometer (1978)
• Franz Bauer-Theussl , conductor (1979)
• Fritz Zerbst , theologian (1979)
• Karl Dinklage , historian, archivist (1979)
• Alfred Uhl , composer and conductor (1980)
• Otto Burkard , geophysicist and space researcher (1981)
• Walter Schuppich , President of the Bar Association for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland (1981)
• Franz Tumler , writer (1981)
• Herbert Matis , economic historian (1982)
• Willibald Riedler , space researcher (1982)
• Franz Austeda , philosopher and educator (1983)
• Walter Bitterlich , forest scientist (1983)
• Wolf Häfele , physicist (1983)
• Ferdinand Holböck , theologian (1983)
• Oswin Martinek , legal scholar (1983)
• Gerhard Wimberger , composer and conductor (1983)
• Ludwig Babinski , jazz and entertainment musician (1984)
• Karl Grell , composer and conductor (1984)
• Fritz Muliar , actor and director (1984)
• Frank Sinatra , singer and actor (1984)
• Raimund Weissensteiner , priest and composer (1984)
• Kurt Adel , literary and linguist (1985)
• Gerhart Baumann , Germanist and literary scholar (1985)
• Robert Herzl , music theater director and opera director (1985)
• Franz Richter Herf , composer, conductor and music theorist (1985)
• Heinrich Brauner , mathematician (1986)
• Erwin Ringel , doctor and psychologist (1986)
• Johann Wondra , Artistic Secretary General of the Vienna Burgtheater (1986)
• Rudolf Bibl , conductor (1988)
• Dietmar Grieser , non-fiction author and journalist (1988)
• Herbert Grubinger , cultural technician and hydraulic engineer, professor at ETH Zurich (1988)
• Marianne Gerzner , actress (1989)
• Rudolf Machacek , lawyer and member of the Constitutional Court (1989)
• Ernst Zinn , philologist (1989)
• Peter Widensky , church musician and musicologist (1990)
• Fritz Wöss , writer (1990)
• Siegfried Josef Bauer , space researcher and university professor (1991)
• Günther Hödl , historian and university rector (1991)
• Ines Mandl , biochemist (1992)
• Manfred Wehdorn , architect (1992)
• Gottfried Biegelmeier , physicist (1993)
• Georg Eisler , painter and graphic artist (1993)
• Hans Koller , jazz musician (1993)
• Alice Schwarz-Gardos , journalist and book author (1993)
• Paul Lendvai , publicist (1994)
• Peter Heintel , philosopher and university professor (1995)
• Heinz Nussbaumer , journalist and television presenter (1995)
• Alfred Wopmann , theater director and artistic director (1995)
• Karl Heinz Burmeister , Head of the Vorarlberg State Archives (1996)
• Fausto Cercignani , Italian literary scholar (1996)
• Herbert Döring, em. o. university professor f. High Frequency Technology (1996)
• Walter Gräf , geologist (1996)
• Walter Kamper , pianist and university professor (1996)
• Gottfried Winkler , lawyer (1996)
• Karl Matthäus Woschitz , Pope. Honorary prelate and em. o. University Professor for Religious Studies (1996)
• Josef Burg , writer (1997)
• Martha Eibl , doctor (1997)
• Klemens von Klemperer , historian (1997)
• Alfred Kolleritsch , writer (1997)
• Rudolf Leopold , art collector (1997)
• Ludovit Rajter , conductor and composer (1997)
• Floridus Röhrig , church historian (1997)
• Senta Berger , actress (1998)
• Emmy Werner , actress and director (1998)
• Peter Drucker , economist (1999)
• Ossy Kolmann , actor, singer and comedian (1999)
• Peter Wegner , computer scientist (1999)
• Wolfgang Bauer , writer (2000)
• Peter Baum , artist, museum director, curator and art critic (2000)
• Peter Czernin , architect (2000)
• Heinz Holecek , singer, actor, parodist, entertainer (2000)
• Albert Hartinger , singer and conductor (2000)
• Paul Kirchhof , constitutional and tax lawyer (2000)
• Michael Marberger , urologist and university professor (2000)
• Hans Müllejans , Provost of Aachen Cathedral (2000)
• Nadja Tiller , actress (2000)
• Ralf Weikert , conductor (2000)
• Bernhard Wicki , actor and film director (2000)
• Herbert Zeman , literary and linguist and singer (2000)
• Karl Vodrazka , business economist (2000)
• Heinz Zednik , character tenor (2000)
• Werner Zögernitz , politician (2000)
• Walter Neuhauser , classical philologist and Germanist (2001)
• Franz Quarthal , historian (2001)
• Milan Turković , bassoonist and conductor (2001)
• Peter Ustinov , actor (2001)
• Hannspeter Winter , physicist (2001)
• Leon Askin , actor and director (2001)
• Dietfried Bernet , conductor (2001)
• Werner Clement , economist and university lecturer (2001)
• Alois J. Hochstrasser , conductor and music teacher (2001)
• Karl Spiehs , film producer (2001)
• Isabella Ackerl , historian (2002)
• Arik Brauer , painter, singer and poet (2002)
• Lotte Ingrisch , writer (2002)
• Herbert Mang , civil engineer (2002)
• Inge Merkel , writer (2002)
• Peter Mittermayr, Head of the Presidential Department of the Office of the Salzburg State Government (2002)
• Richard Picker, priest, religious educator and psychotherapist (2002)
• Günter Rhomberg , manager and cultural functionary (2002)
• Johann Schadenbauer , composer, conductor and military bandmaster (2002)
• Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik , Professor of Philosophy and Education (2002)
• Martin Sieghart , cellist, music teacher and conductor (2002)
• Andreas Unterberger , journalist (2002)
• Harald Mandl alias Matthias Mander (2002)
• Peter Dannenberg , music critic, music writer and artistic director (2003)
• Gerlinde Haid , folk music researcher (2003)
• Martin Purtscher , Governor of Vorarlberg (2003)
• Konrad Ragossnig , guitarist and lutenist (2003)
• Saulius Sondeckis , Lithuanian conductor (2003)
• Peter Paul Wiplinger , writer and photographer (2003)
• Hans Wolfsbauer-Schönau , architect, painter and graphic artist (2003)
• Walter Höflechner , historian (2003)
• Gerlinde Dill , dancer and choreographer (2004)
• Ernst Fuchs , painter, graphic artist and architect (2004)
• Helmut Kramer , economist (2004)
• Franz Jantsch , theologian and author (2004)
• Oswald Oberhuber , painter and sculptor (2004)
• Heinz Petters , actor (2004)
• Gernot Piccottini , archaeologist (2004)
• Georges Prêtre , French conductor (2004)
• Günther Schwab , writer (2004)
• Jolantha Seyfried , ballet dancer and university teacher (2004)
• Hans Winter , veterinary pathologist (2004)
• Dieter A. Binder , historian (2005)
• Hans Hollmann , director (2005)
• Stefan Karner , historian (2005)
• Oskar Meggeneder , social and economic scientist , (2005)
• Valentin Oman , painter, graphic artist and sculptor (2005)
• Carl Riha , opera director (2005)
• Heinz Zemanek , computer pioneer (2005)
• Kurt Komarek , chemist (2006)
• Wolfgang Mayer König , author (2006)
• Hans Walter Lack , botanist (2006)
• Heinz Schäffer , legal scholar, university professor at the University of Salzburg (2006)
• Georg Wick , pathologist and gerontologist (2006)
• Franz Alt , mathematician (2007)
• Fritz Csoklich , journalist (2007)
• Gebhard König , library director (2007)
• Reinhard Krepler , physician (2007)
• Guggi Löwinger , singer and actress (2007)
• Christiane Sorell , soprano (2007)
• Margret Wenzel-Jelinek , singer and actress (2007)
• Hannes Androsch , politician and entrepreneur (2008)
• Ernst von Glasersfeld , philosopher and communication scientist (2008)
• Harald Hertz , trauma surgeon (2008)
• Hans H. Hinterhuber , economist (2008)
• Oleh Hornykiewicz , brain researcher (2008)
• Arvo Pärt , composer (2008)
• Sebastian Posch , classical philologist (2008)
• Arno Raunig , opera singer (2008)
• Wander Bertoni , sculptor (2009)
• Theodore Bikel , singer and actor (2009)
• Christian Fabjan , physicist (2009)
• Josef Pillhofer , sculptor (2009)
• Sonny Rollins , saxophonist (2009)
• Julius H. Schoeps , historian and publicist (2009)
• Jan Ślęk , musician (2009)
• Walter Tauscher , chemist (2009)
• Hans M. Tuschar , poet and writer (2009)
• Karl Wohlhart , physicist (2009)
• Werner Koenne , computer scientist (2010)
• Günter Müller , business IT specialist (2010)
• Johannes Neuhardt , clergyman and art historian (2010)
• Ali Radwan , Egyptologist (2010)
• Gebhard Rieger , ophthalmologist (2010)
• Peter Schmidl , clarinetist (2010)
• Hans Ströbitzer , journalist and author (2010)
• Gerald Szyszkowitz , director, writer and painter (2010)
• Günter Virt , clergyman and professor for moral theology (2010)
• Peter Vodopivec , historian (2010)
• Josef Wallnig , conductor and professor for opera interpretation (2010)
• Rudolf Welser , legal scholar, author and writer (2010)
• Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger business mathematician (2010)
• Ernst Florian Winter , political scientist (2010)
• Martin Heller , director of the cultural capital Linz09 (2010)
• Arnold Klotz , Vice Rector for Infrastructure University of Innsbruck (2010)
• Hellmut Fischmeister , materials scientist (2010)
• Norbert Vana , physicist (2010)
• Nicolette Mout , historian and em. Professor (2010)
• Winfried Blum , soil biologist and forest scientist (2011)
• Susanne Heine , pastor and professor (2011)
• Peter Huemer , journalist and historian (2011)
• Jürgen Mittelstraß , philosopher (2011)
• Dietmar Schönherr , actor (2011)
• Wolfgang Maderthaner , historian, General Director of the Austrian State Archives (2011)
• Edward Białek , German and literary scholar (2012)
• Herwig Hösele , Publicist, Coordinator for Science and Research of the State of Styria, Secretary General Future Fund Austria (2012)
• Cathrin Pichler , curator (2012)
• Ronny Reich , Israeli archaeologist (2012)
• Johann Mayr , university professor, social scientist (2012)
• Markus Schächter , Director of the Second German Television (2012)
• Werner Schneyder , cabaret artist, author, actor, director and sports commentator (2012)
• Ivo Brunner , Rector of the Vorarlberg University of Education (2013)
• Barbara Frischmuth , writer and translator (2013)
• Boris Kuschnir , violinist and music teacher (2013)
• Erich Lessing , photographer (2013)
• Georg Markus , writer and journalist (2013)
• Gustav Peichl , architect and cartoonist (2013)
• Piotr Szalsza , director and author (2013)
• Lóránd Hegyi , art historian (2014)
• Peter Henisch , writer, journalist and musician (2014)
• Erwin Hochmair , physicist (2014)
• Hans Moser , Germanist (2014)
• Peter Rychlo , literary scholar and translator (2014)
• Emmerich Tálos , political scientist (2014)
• Giacomo Aragall , Catalan opera singer and chamber singer of the Vienna State Opera, b. Jaime (Jaume) Aragall i Garriga, (2015)
• Hubert Christian Ehalt , historian and anthropologist (2015)
• Richard Gisser , demographer (2015)
• Heidy Margrit Müller , literary scholar (2015)
• Ingeborg Ohnheiser , Slavist (2015)
• Arnulf Rainer , painter (2015)
• Karl Ucakar , political scientist (2015)
• Marina Fischer-Kowalski , sociologist, social ecologist and university professor for social ecology (2015)
• Helmuth Gsöllpointner , sculptor, object artist, designer (2015)
• Zdeněk Bažant , civil engineer (2016)
• Sven-Eric Bechtolf , actor, theater and opera director (2016)
• Monika Helfer , writer (2016)
• Michael Köhlmeier , writer (2016)
• Ulrich HJ Körtner , Protestant theologian and medical ethicist (2016)
• Alfred Komarek , writer (2016)
• Karl Merkatz , actor (2016)
• Ursula Pasterk , politician and cultural manager (2016)
• Johanna Rachinger , General Director of the Austrian National Library (2016)
• Friedrich Wallner , philosopher and scientific theorist (2016)
• Eugen Brikcius , writer (2017)
• Alexander Potyka , publisher (2017)
• Rudi Klausnitzer , artistic director, cultural manager and journalist (2017)
• Michael Schratz , educationalist (2017)
• Danielle Spera , journalist and museum director (2017)
• Brigitte Mazohl , historian (2017)
• Peter Fabjan, half-brother and estate administrator of Thomas Bernhard (2018)
• Wilhelm Muzyczyn , Vice President of the Bregenz Festival (2018)
• Reinhart Kögerler , Professor of Theoretical Physics, President of the Christian Doppler Research Society (2018)
• Lukas Resetarits , cabaret artist and actor (2019)
• Roberto Paternostro , conductor (2019)
• Józef Niewiadomski , theologian (2019)
• Friedrich Hoppichler , internist, diabetologist, endocrinologist and cardiologist (2019)
• Jane Goodall , behavioral scientist (2019)
• Franz Schausberger , politician and historian (2020)
• Cees Nooteboom , writer (2020)

Year of award not known

• Maurus Knappek , Abbot of Altenburg Abbey
• Zoran Žiletić , Serbian German studies specialist and university professor

Cross of Honor for Science and Art (since 1955)

• Karl Schiske , composer (1960)
• Moritz Enzinger , Germanist and literary scholar (1961)
• Leopold Hauer , painter (1961)
• Heinrich Krause , painter (1961)
• Willy Dirtl , dancer (1962)
• Friedrich Sedlak , violinist and conductor (1962)
• Auguste Pünkösdy , chamber actress (1961)
• Harry Fuss , actor (1964)
• Heinrich Gattermeyer , composer and music teacher (1964)
• Walter Barylli , violinist (1967)
• Anny Felbermayer , song, oratorio and opera singer (1969)
• Eberhard Marckhgott , theologian (1970)
• Franz Koringer , composer (1971)
• Gustav Zelibor , pianist and Kapellmeister (1971)
• Marie-Luise Cavallar von Grabensprung , reciter, writer, actress, journalist and teacher (1972)
• Rudolf List , writer and journalist (1972)
• Hilde Spiel , writer and journalist (1972)
• Kurt Heintel , actor (1973)
• Georg Eisler , painter and graphic artist (1974)
• Otto Hromatka , chemist (1974)
• Alfred Planyavsky , double bass player and music historian (1975)
• Franz Zelwecker , composer and conductor (1975)
• Paul Badura-Skoda , pianist (1976)
• Wolfgang Mayer König , author (1976)
• Erich Huber , painter (1977)
• Walter Dostal , ethnologist (1993)
• Maximilian Stockenhuber , sculptor (1980)
• Tom Krinzinger, actor (1980)
• Fritz Leitermeyer , composer and violinist (1981)
• Guggi Löwinger , singer and actress (1981)
• Milo Dor , writer (1983)
• Rolf Regele , painter (1983)
• HC Artmann , writer (1984)
• Karl Gideon Gössele , writer and radio editor (1984)
• Ludwig Schwarzer , painter (1984)
• Günther Winkler , lawyer (1984)
• Nikolaus Fheodoroff , composer, conductor, pianist and sound engineer (1986)
• Alois Hergouth , writer (1987)
• Elfriede Trautner , graphic artist (1987)
• Kiki Kogelnik , artist (1988)
• Leon Askin , actor and director (1988)
• Albrecht Weiland , Christian archaeologist and publisher (1989)
• Erwin Huber , sculptor (1989)
• Gerhard Steffen , cabaret artist and actor (1989)
• Ilse Tielsch , writer (1989)
• Karl Wolfsgruber , theologian and monument conservator (1989)
• Gernot Piccottini , archaeologist (1990)
• Hubert Trimmel , speleologist (1990)
• Anton Watzl , painter and graphic artist (1991)
• Nicholas Allen , Acting and Theater Director (1991)
• Robert Jungk , publicist, journalist and futurologist (1993)
• Herbert Willi , composer (1997)
• Heribert Sasse , actor, director and theater manager (1998)
• Erich S. Gruen , ancient historian (1999)
• Karl Merkatz , actor (1999)
• Peter Simonischek , actor (1999)
• Josef Luitz , cellist (2000)
• Gerda Fassel , sculptor (2001)
• Walter Puchner , theater scholar and folklorist (2001)
• Johann Grander , entrepreneur and esotericist (2001)
• Georg Kövary , writer (2001)
• Hannes Lintl , architect (2001)
• Fabio Luisi , conductor (2002)
• Maria Schell , actress (2002)
• Maximilian Schell , actor, film director, film producer (2002)
• Klaus Behrendt , actor (2002)
• Hubert Pfaffenbichler , painter and sculptor (2002)
• Herbert Müller , physicist (2003)
• Erich Schleyer , screenwriter, presenter, actor (2003)
• Milan Hatala , rehearsal and training director of the Vienna State Opera (2003)
• Hans Salomon , jazz musician, composer, arranger, band leader (2004)
• Peter A. Bruck , communication scientist and media researcher (2005)
• Alfred Buberl , vehicle technician and historian (2005)
• Alexandra Kontrus , soloist of the Vienna State Opera Ballet (2005)
• Klaus Burger , judge (2005)
• Adele Haas , opera singer (2005)
• Franz Klemm , Montanist, raw materials expert and power plant researcher (2005)
• Anselm Kiefer , painter and sculptor (2005)
• Wolfgang Fleischhacker , psychiatrist (2005)
• Hein Mader , sculptor (2005)
• Tony Jagitsch , jazz musician (2006)
• Ursula Krinzinger , gallery owner and art dealer (2007)
• Paul Rotterdam , painter (2007)
• Yakov Kreizberg , conductor (2007)
• Friedrich Hoppichler , internist, diabetologist, endocrinologist and cardiologist (2007)
• Michael Halász , conductor (2008)
• Gerhard Haszprunar , zoologist (2008)
• Robert Kriechbaumer , historian and political scientist (2008)
• Martha Schad , historian, author (2008)
• Andrea Breth , director (2009)
• Grita Insam , gallery owner (2009)
• Mariss Jansons , conductor (2009)
• Diether Kramer , historian (2009)
• Aylâ Neusel , university and women's politician (2009)
• Karl Schörghuber , urban developer (2009)
• Fredmund Malik , management cyberneticist and systems scientist (2009)
• Herbert Kneifel , local history researcher, archivist, doctor, local politician (2009)
• Ulrich Fuchs , Deputy Director of the Capital of Culture Linz09 (2010)
• Gyula Harangozó , Director of the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper (2010)
• Stephan Paryla-Raky , theater and film actor, singer and reciter (2010)
• Bianca Maria Carmen Predescu , scientist (2010)
• Fritz Gruber , historian (2010)
• Anna Lea Staudacher , historian (2010)
• Johanna Holaubek , Egyptologist (2011)
• Alfred Pritz , psychoanalyst, publicist and editor (2011)
• Simonetta Polenghi , historian (2011)
• Raoul Kneucker , legal scholar (2011)
• Peter Bußjäger , legal scholar (2012)
• Walter Dillenz , copyright holder, founder of the collecting society for filmmakers VDFS (2012)
• Andreas Raymond Dombret , economist and bank manager (2012)
• Peter Engelmann , philosopher and publisher (2012)
• Vivian Liska , Germanist (2012)
• Christoph Waltz , actor (2012)
• Juergen Boos , Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair (2013)
• Peter B. Hauser , Researcher Consultant, numismatist , collector (2013)
• Peter Kraus , actor and singer (2014)
• Christian Kvasnicka , painter (2014)
• Siegfried Nasko , politician and civil servant (2014)
• Ildikó Raimondi , singer (2014)
• Friederike Wall , Economist and Vice Rector of the University of Klagenfurt (2014)
• Ludwig Zack , priest and president of the Kolping family (2014)
• Ruth Beckermann , documentary filmmaker and author (2015)
• Rudolf Gelbard , freedom fighter, concentration camp survivor and contemporary witness (2015)
• Harald Sicherheitsitz , screenwriter and director (2016)
• Alfred Radner , President of the Austrian Society for Medical Law (2017)
• Christine Schöpf , Artistic Director Ars Electronica Festival (2018)
• Heidi Horten , art collector (2018)
• Michael Landgraf , lecturer and writer (2018).
• Dieter Michael Grohmann , Austrian lawyer, filmmaker and media artist (2019)
• Ismael Ivo , founder of the Vienna dance festival ImPulsTanz (2019)
• Wilhelm Wadl , Carinthian Provincial Archives (2019)

Year of award not known

• Josef Schnetzer , painter
• Peter Klein , opera singer

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Answer of the Federal Chancellor (PDF; 6.9 MB)
3. ^ Austrian award for Gerhart Hauptmann. In:  Neue Freie Presse , December 9, 1937, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Annual reception for the members of the Curia for Science and Art. In: bundespraesident.at. Retrieved October 31, 2019 . 
5. ^ Vienna State Opera: Olga Neuwirth receives the Decoration of Honor for Science and Art. In: Small newspaper . December 5, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 . 
6. ↑ orf.at: Space pioneer Willibald Riedler dead . Article from January 25, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2018.
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9. ↑ High distinction for Prof. Georg Wick - myPoint. In: i-med.ac.at. Retrieved November 2, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Cross of Honor for Science and Art to Reinhard Krepler ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated September 2007, accessed December 16, 2014. 
11. ^ Kammersängerin Christiane Sorell was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class . APA notification dated May 16, 2007, accessed June 1, 2015.
12. ^ Vienna History Wiki: Harald Hertz: Awards . Accessed March 31, 2019.
13. ↑ Minister of Culture Ostermayer honors writer Peter Henisch ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article from November 27, 2014, accessed on January 28, 2015. 
14. ^ City hall correspondence
15. ↑ Rector presents the cross of honor to Ingeborg Ohnheiser . University of Innsbruck, accessed June 1, 2018.
16. ↑ Federal Minister Ostermayer honors Arnulf Rainer . APA notification dated April 16, 2015, accessed April 17, 2015.
17. ^ Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt | Marina Fischer-Kowalski receives the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class. In: www.aau.at. Retrieved May 25, 2016 . 
18. ^ Federal Minister Ostermayer honors Helmuth Gsöllpointner . APA notification dated September 29, 2015, accessed November 14, 2019.
19. ↑ http://www.imws.tuwien.ac.at/home/aktuelles/daten/2015/09/09/verleihung-des-oesterreichischen-ehrenkreuzes-fuer-wissenschaft-und-kunst-i-klasse/ Accessed July 2016
20. ↑ derStandard.at - Ex-Festival director Bechtolf awarded a cross of honor . Article dated November 12, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016.
21. ↑ ^{a b} orf.at - Cross of Honor for Köhlmeier and helpers . Article dated March 8, 2016, accessed March 8, 2016.
22. ↑ Decoration of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class for Ulrich HJ Körtner ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , University of Vienna → Evangelical Theological Faculty, November 16, 2016 
23. ^ Minister of Culture Ostermayer pays tribute to Alfred Komarek for his multifaceted work . APA notification from January 19, 2016, accessed on January 20, 2016.
24. ↑ Thomas Drozda awards Ursula Pasterk the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated November 3, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016. 
25. ↑ General Director Dr. Johanna Rachinger receives Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated January 30, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2016. 
26. ↑ Prizes and awards in June 2016 , media portal of the University of Vienna, accessed January 15, 2017.
27. ↑ Culture Minister Drozda honors Alexander Potyka: "Builders of our intellectual worlds and fighters for fair copyright law" . OTS from December 5, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2018.
28. ^ Minister of Culture Drozda honors Rudolf Klausnitzer . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed December 14, 2017]).
29. ^ Wiener Zeitung : Personalnachrichten , Issue No. 203 / October 18, 2017
30. ↑ Cross of Honor for Spera: "Current events the face lent" . Article dated December 18, 2017, accessed December 18, 2017.
31. ^ University of Innsbruck: Cross of Honor for Historian Mazohl . Article dated December 22, 2017, accessed December 22, 2017.
32. ↑ orf.at: Cross of Honor for Bernhard brother Fabjan . Article dated June 11, 2018, accessed June 12, 2018.
33. ↑ Schramböck honors personalities in the local economy for their services . OTS announcement of October 18, 2018, accessed October 19, 2018.
34. ^ Federal Chancellery: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class to Lukas Resetarits. . Accessed March 31, 2019.
35. ^ Austrian Cross of Honor to Paternostro. In: bundeskanzleramt.at. June 7, 2019, accessed February 26, 2020 . 
36. ^ Theologian Józef Niewiadomski was awarded the Cross of Honor . Article dated June 27, 2019, accessed June 27, 2019.
37. ↑ Cross of Honor for Primary Friedrich Hoppichler. Retrieved July 1, 2019 . 
38. ^ Austrian Cross of Honor for Jane Goodall. In: ORF.at . September 11, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 . 
39. ↑ Salzburg News. February 6, 2020. p. 21
40. ↑ Werner Schuder: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1980 , 13th edition, Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 1648, DNB 010029699 .
41. ↑ Education Minister Gehrer presents high state awards for services to science and research . OTS bulletin dated June 22, 2005, accessed November 26, 2018.
42. ^ Vienna State Opera: Decoration of honor for Prof. Gerlinde Dill and Alexandra Kontrus . OTS bulletin dated February 15, 2005, accessed June 26, 2018.
43. ↑ Federal Minister Ostermayer awards the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art to Ildikó Raimondi . APA notification dated June 3, 2014, accessed May 7, 2015.
44. ↑ Federal Chancellor Faymann and Minister of Culture Ostermayer honor Kolping legend Ludwig Zack ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated December 2, 2014, accessed January 30, 2015. 
45. ↑ kolping.at
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54. ↑ Cross of Honor for Wilhelm Wadl on ORF from September 5, accessed on September 5, 2019

Web links

• www.kurienwissenschaftundkunst.at