The Tyrolean Eagle-Order () is an

honour Honour (Commonwealth English) or honor (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) is a quality of a person that is of both social teaching and personal ethos, that manifests itself ...

awarded by the

State of Tyrol Tyrol ( ; ; ) is an Austrian federal state. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical Princely County of Tyrol. It is a constituent part of the present-day Euroregion Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino (together with South Tyrol and Tre ...

. It was established by the National Council in 1970. It is awarded to personalities who have an excellent political, economic or cultural relationship with the State of Tyrol. The award ceremony takes place on October 25 of the respective year.

Classes

The order is divided into the 3 classes as follows: #Grand Tyrolean Eagle-Order (''Großer Tiroler Adler-Orden'') #Tyrolean Eagle-Order in Gold (''Tiroler Adler-Orden in Gold'') #Tyrolean Eagle-Order in Silver (''Tiroler Adler-Orden in Silver'')

Notable recipients

Below is a list of notable recipients, in chronological order with year of award in parentheses:.

Grand Tyrolean Eagle-Order

Günther Granser Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse ''gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gun ...

* Herbert Schambeck *

Wolfgang Schmidt Wolfgang Schmidt may refer to: * Wolfgang Schmidt (athlete) Wolfgang Schmidt (born 16 January 1954) is a German former track and field athlete who competed for East Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal in the discus thr ...

* Gerhard Bletschacher (1973) *

Fritz Molden Fritz is a common German male name. The name originated as a German diminutive of Friedrich or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor), as well ...

(1979) *

Ludwig Jedlicka Ludwig may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ludwig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Ludwig (surname), including a list of people * Ludwig von Koopa, a character in Mario (the game) Arts and entertain ...

(1976) * Herbert Batliner (1984) *

Jean Sévillia Jean Sévillia (born in Paris on September 14, 1952) is a conservative French journalist and essayist. He is known for writings in ''Le Figaro Magazine''. His defense of the Roman Catholic Church's role in history has made him popular from traditio ...

(1991) *

Peter Schmidhuber Peter Schmidhuber (15 December 1931 – 26 December 2020) was a German and European politician from the Bavarian CSU party. Biography Schmidhuber was born in Munich, Bavaria. He studied law and economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University o ...

(1995) * Anton Kathrein junior (2001) *

Brigitte Fassbaender Brigitte Fassbaender (; born 3 July 1939), is a German mezzo-soprano opera singer and a stage director. From 1999 to 2012 she was Theater manager, intendant (managing director) of the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck, Austria. She holds the ti ...

(2002) * Alain de Krassny (2002) * Walter Hagg (2005) *

Edmund Stoiber Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber (born 28 September 1941) 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 (CSU) between 1999 and 2007. In 2002, he ...

(2007) * Andreas Treichl (2012) *

François Biltgen François Biltgen (born 28 September 1958 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgish politician who has served as Minister for Justice, Minister for Communications and the Media, Minister for Religious Affairs, Minister for the Civil Se ...

(2013) * Emilia Müller (2013) *

Reinhard Olt Reinhard is a German, Austrian, Danish, and to a lesser extent Norwegian and Swedish surname (from Germanic ''ragin'', counsel, and ''hart'', strong), and a spelling variant of Reinhardt. Persons with the given name *Reinhard of Blankenburg (after ...

(2013) *

Axel Diekmann Axel may refer to: People * Axel (name), all persons with the name Places * Axel, Netherlands, a town ** Capture of Axel, a battle at Axel in 1586 Arts, entertainment, media * ''Axel'', a 1988 short film by Nigel Wingrove * ''Axel'', a Cirque ...

(2014) *

Hanni Wenzel Hannelore (Hanni) Wenzel. vancouver2010.com. 23 January 2010 (born 14 December 1956) is a retired Liechtensteiner alpine ski racer. Wenzel is a former Olympic, World Cup, and world champion. She won Liechtenstein's first-ever Olympic medal at ...

(2016) *

Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Princess Royal () (born 2 April 1955) is a member of the Thai royal family. She is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and the younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn. Early life Birth Si ...

(2017) *

Othmar Commenda Othmar Commenda (born 29 May 1954) is a retired General of the Austrian Armed Forces and former Chief of its General Staff. Career After his basic military service in 1975, he graduated at the Theresian Military Academy. He was from 1979 Platoo ...

(2018) *

Jean-Claude Juncker Jean-Claude Juncker (; born 9 December 1954) is a Luxembourgish politician who was List of prime ministers of Luxembourg, prime minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013 and president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019. He also was List ...

(2019)

Tyrolean Eagle-Order in Gold

Ilse Dvorak-Stocker Ilse is a Germanic feminine given name. It is technically a German diminutive of Elisabeth, functioning as a given name in its own right chiefly in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa and all of the Scandinavia ...

Alfred Hartl Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...

Friedrich Hoppe Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...

* Roderich Regler * Andreas Resch * Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (1982) * Holger Magel (1988) * Horst Seidler (1996) * Klemens Fischer (2008) * Eberhard Stüber (2011) * Alessandro Quaroni (2012) * Nikolas Stihl (2012) * Klaus Buchleitner (2016) * Gert Vogt (2017) * Ulrike Tanzer (2018)

Tyrolean Eagle-Order in Silver

* Udo Zehetleitner (2009) * Erwin Mohr (2014) * Ramón Jaffé (2015) *

Clemens Bieber Clemens Bieber (born 26 January 1956) is a German operatic tenor. Life Born in Würzburg, Bieber completed his vocal studies at the Hochschule für Musik in his hometown with Adalbert Kraus and Horst Laubenthal. From 1986 to 1988, he was engag ...

(2016) * Gebhard Kaiser (2016) * Rudolf Lill

References

{{Reflist Orders, decorations, and medals of Austria Awards established in 1970 1970 establishments in Austria Orders of merit