Recipients of the Scharnhorst Order

Polish military and political official, leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 to 1989

Soviet military commander and politician (1908-1984)

Soviet minister of defence (1924-2020)

German politician (1914–1999)

Polish cosmonaut (1941–2022)

German politician (1907-2000)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1921-2013)

Soviet marshal (1923–1991)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1917–1994)

Soviet admiral (1910–1988)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1917–1990)

German military officer, Armeegeneral in the former National People's Army of East Germany (1920-2017)

German politician (SED) (1910-1985)

Syrian military officer and politician (1932–2017)

German politician (1913–1993)

German admiral (1935-2018)

Soviet admiral (1928–2023)

Soviet general (1918-1991)

German journalist (1903-1975)

General of the army (1909-2002)

Officer of the Red Army and Soviet Ground Forces, Commander-in-Chief of Ground Forces 1967-80

Hero of the Soviet Union (1913–1991)

German military personnel (1923–2012)

German politician (1925-2016)

Soviet general (1919-2008)

Soviet general (1923-2009)

German politician (1929-2008)

German politician (1909–1992)

German politician (1914-1991)