| Year |
Name and function |
| 1963 |
Dr. Konrad Ende, Chairman of the Executive Board of Salzgitter AG |
| 1969 |
Gustav Stollberg, former Lord Mayor |
| 1975 |
Hans Birnbaum, Chairman of the Executive Board of Salzgitter AG |
| 1975 |
Erich Söchtig, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Salzgitter AG |
| 1975 |
Dr. Wilhelm Höck, former Lord Mayor |
| 1977 |
Karl Heidenblut, co-founder of the CDU in Salzgitter |
| 1983 |
Willi Blume, former Lord Mayor |
| 1989 |
Johannes Wosnitza, honorary canon and ecclesiastical councillor |
| 1996 |
Hermann Struck, former Lord Mayor |
| 1996 |
Hans-Jürgen Junghans Member of the Bundestag |
| 1996 |
Tibor Seybold von Szabolcs, businessman |
| 2002 |
Rudolf Rückert, former Lord Mayor |
| 2002 |
Georg Obst, former parliamentary group leader of the SPD in Salzgitter |
| 2018 |
Erika Bolm, former mayoress. |
| 2018 |
Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann, Chairman of the Executive Board of Salzgitter AG |
| 2018 |
Hildegard Schooß, founder of Germany's first SOS Mothers' Center in Salzgitter |
| 2026 |
Peter-Jürgen Schneider, former Finance Minister of Lower Saxony |
| 2026 |
Wolfgang Schneider, former chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the council |
| 2026 |
Werner Kubitza, former 1st authorized representative of IG Metall Salzgitter - Peine |
| 2026 |
Angelika Stramiello, former director of the Salzgitter women's shelter |
| 2026 |
Jürgen Hattop, former council member and founder of the Hattop Foundation |
