Decoration for Science and Art • 1957:
Clemens Holzmeister, architect • 1959:
Max Mell, writer • 1959:
Alfred Verdross, jurist • 1960:
O. W. Fischer, actor • 1961:
Herbert von Karajan, conductor;
Rudolf von Laun, international lawyer • 1964:
Edmund Hlawka, mathematician;
Ernst Lothar, writer and director • 1966:
Ludwig von Ficker, writer and publisher • 1967:
Karl Heinrich Waggerl, writer;
Lise Meitner, physicist • 1969:
Anny Felbermayer, soprano • 1971:
Fritz Wotruba, architect and artist • 1972:
Elias Canetti, writer • 1974:
Gottfried von Einem, composer • 1974:
Paul Hörbiger, actor • 1975:
Hans Tuppy, biochemist;
Robert Stolz, composer • 1976:
Friedrich Torberg, writer and translator;
Manfred Eigen, chemist • 1977:
Ernst Schönwiese, writer • 1978:
Hans Nowotny, chemist • 1979:
Roland Rainer, architect;
Max Weiler, artist • 1980:
Alfred Uhl and
Marcel Rubin, composer;
Fritz Hochwälder, writer;
Karl Popper, philosopher and science theorist • 1981:
Gertrud Fussenegger, writer;
Werner Berg, painter • 1982:
Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer;
Jacqueline de Romilly, philologist • 1983:
Hans Plank, painter • 1985:
Erika Mitterer, writer • 1985:
Joannis Avramidis, painter and sculptor • 1986:
Johann Jascha, artist • 1987:
Friederike Mayröcker, writer • 1988:
Dietmar Grieser, author and journalist • 1990:
Ernst Jandl, writer;
Hans Hollein, architect • 1991:
H. C. Artmann, writer • 1992:
Carlos Kleiber, conductor;
Krzysztof Penderecki, composer • 1993:
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect;
Peter Schuster, chemist;
Gottfried Biegelmeier, physicist;
Walter Thirring, physicist;
Albert Eschenmoser, chemist;
Albrecht Schöne, philologist;
Günther Wilke, chemist • 1994:
Josef Mikl, painter;
Erwin Chargaff, chemist • 1995:
Horst Stein, conductor • 1996:
Siegfried Josef Bauer, meteorologist and geophysicist • 1997:
Bruno Gironcoli, artist;
Kurt Schwertsik, composer;
Hans Hass, biologist;
Robert Walter, jurist;
Albrecht Dihle, classical philologist;
Cassos Karageorghis, archaeologist;
Klemens von Klemperer, historian • 1998:
Hans-Jörg Wiedl reptile expert
Helmut Denk, pathologist • 1999:
Carl Pruscha, architect;
Elisabeth Lichtenberger, geographer;
Karl Acham, sociologist;
Walter Kohn, physicist • 2000:
Paul Kirchhof, constitutional and tax lawyer;
Hans Müllejans, provost;
Herwig Wolfram, historian;
Gerardo Broggini, lawyer • 2001:
Anton Zeilinger, experimental physicist • 2002:
Arik Brauer, painter, poet and singer;
Peter Wolf, Austrian-born producer and composer;
Eugen Biser, religious philosopher;
Horst Dreier, legal philosopher;
Elliott H. Lieb, physicist and mathematician;
Bogdan Bogdanović, architect • 2003:
Hermann Fillitz, art historian;
Wolfgang M. Schmidt, mathematician • 2004:
Klaus Wolff, dermatologist • 2005:
Václav Havel, writer, dissident and former president of the Czech Republic;
Christian Attersee, painter;
Eric Kandel, neuroscientist;
Peter Palese, virologist • 2006:
Bruno Ganz, actor;
Stephen Toulmin, philosopher;
Christian Meier, historian;
Pierre Soulages, painter;
Michael Mitterauer, historian • 2007:
Otto Tausig, actor • 2008:
Marina Abramović, performance artist • 2009:
Mati Sirkel, translator • 2010:
Paul Holdengräber, curator • 2012:
Christoph Waltz, actor, director. • 2013:
Gerhard Rühm, author, composer, artist • 2014:
Abbas Kiarostami, film director, screenwriter, photographer
Cross (and Cross 1st Class) • 1960:
Karl Schiske, composer • 1961:
Günther Baszel, artist;
Ernst Lothar, author and director • 1965:
Kurt Roger, Composer / Professor
Georg Szell Conductor
Nathan Milstein Violin • 1966:
Herbert Zipper, Conductor / Music Educator / Composer • 1967:
Maria Augusta von Trapp, matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers • 1968:
Alphons Barb, author • 1970:
Enver Čolaković, writer and poet • 1971:
Gustav Zelibor, pianist and conductor • 1974:
Erika Mitterer, writer;
Marcel Rubin, composer;
Arthur Hilton, chemist, • 1975
Karl Menger, mathematician • 1976:
Wolfgang Mayer König, writer • 1977:
Wolfgang Rehm, musicologist • 1978: Kurt Neumüller, pianist and pedagogue • 1980:
Alfred Uhl, composer • 1981:
Thomas Christian David, conductor, composer, flutist • 1982:
Margareta Sjöstedt • 1983:
Walter Bitterlich, forest scientist,
Wolf Häfele, physicist • 1984:
Frank Sinatra, singer and actor,
Fritz Muliar, actor and director,
Ludwig Schwarzer, painter • 1987:
Sir Malcolm Pasley, literary scholar and philologist;
Alois Hergouth, writer and poet;
Helen Adolf, literary scholar and linguist • 1989:
Norbert Pawlicki, pianist and composer • 1991:
Neal Zaslaw, American musicologist • 1994:
Christian M. Nebehay, art dealer and author • 1996:
Ronald S. Calinger, American historian of Mathematics;
Fausto Cercignani, Italian scholar, essayist and poet;
Quirino Principe, Italian philosopher of music and dramatist • 1997:
Herbert Willi, composer;
Lucian O. Meysels, author;
Ernest Manheim, American sociologist of Hungarian origin • 1998:
Senta Berger, actress,
Kiki Kogelnik, artist (posthumously awarded),
Edith Neumann, microbiologist.,
Edmund Engelman, Jewish-Austrian, later American photographer and engineer • 1999:
Peter Simonischek, actor,
Erich Gruen, historian. • 2001:
Klaus-Peter Sattler, composer,
Hermann Maurer, computer scientist,
Walter Homolka, rabbi;
Hannspeter Winter, physicist;
Johann Grander, inventor. • 2002:
Fabio Luisi, Italian conductor,
Kurt Rudolf Fischer, philosopher,
Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, philosopher;
John Ross, chemist;
Seiji Ozawa, conductor • 2003:
Erich Schleyer, actor and author,
Günther Granser, economist • 2004:
Oswald Oberhuber, artist,
Hans Winter, veterinary pathologist • 2005:
Gottfried Kumpf, painter, architect, sculptor,
Georg Ratzinger, choirmaster,
Heinz Zemanek, computer pioneer • 2006:
Peter Ruzicka, German composer and artistic director,
Lothar Bruckmeier, painter,
Peter Wegner, computer scientist,
Elisabeth Leonskaja, pianist,
Richard Kriesche, artist • 2007:
Herbert W. Franke, scientist, writer, artist;
Hans Walter Lack, botanist;
Josef Burg, writer;
Reginald Vospernik, high school director;
Nuria Nono-Schönberg,
Lawrence Schönberg,
Ronald Schönberg, the three children of Arnold Schoenberg • 2008:
Gerhard Haszprunar, zoologist;
Ernst von Glasersfeld, Austro-American constructivist,
Michael Ludwig, Michael Kaufmann, manager of German culture;
Reinhard Putz, anatomist;
Jessye Norman, American soprano;
Hannes Androsch, Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor a.D.;
Gerald Holton, physicist and historian of science • 2008:
Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer • 2009:
Grita Insam, gallerist;
Hans Werner Scheidl, journalist and author;
Stefan Größing, sports scientist;
Bruno Mamoli, specialist in neurology and psychiatry;
Fredmund Malik, management scientist;
Theodore Bikel;
Hans Werner Sokop, poet and translator • 2010:
Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer • 2011:
Harry Schachter, Canadian Biochemist • 2012:
Hilde Hawlicek, Austrian former government minister • 2012:
Ronny Reich, Israeli Archaeologist • 2013:
Uroš Lajovic, Slovenian conductor;
Peter Bogner (art historian), art historian • 2015:
Jan M. Ziolkowski, American medievalist and Latinist • 2015:
Richard Gisser, demographer • 2016:
Bernard Keeffe, conductor, radio and television broadcaster, scriptwriter, BBC producer, Chair and President of Anglo-Austrian Music Society. • 2017:
Julius Rebek Jr., American chemist;
Michael Schratz, educational scientist • 2019: , Dutch historian • 2020:
Franz Schausberger, Austrian politician and historian • 2021:
Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Spanish philosopher • 2021:
August Reinisch, Austrian lawyer
Forfeiture Forfeiture of this honour became possible with Federal Law Gazette I No 128/2001, changing Act § 8a. It allows the government to strip recipients of their honours if deemed unworthy. The best known example of such a forfeiture is of the Nazi physician
Heinrich Gross. On 5 August 2008 the Austrian Science Minister
Johannes Hahn decided not to withdraw the award from inventor
Johann Grander. – see also Wikipedia German version and see also Austrian ministry == References ==