1952
Degree in Economics and Business Administration – University of Bern “Doktor rerum politicarum” Magna cum laude

07-02-1968
Ordre du Mérite National Mauritanien

24-04-1986
Grande Ufficiale dell`Ordine (Al Merito della Republica Italiana)

01-7-1986
City Badge in Gold of the City of Wolfsburg

24-11-1986
Lower Saxony Order of Merit and Lower Saxony State Medal

17-12-1986
Man of the Year (Motor)

21-02-1987
Honorary Senator of the TU Braunschweig Carolo-Wilhelmina

26-02-1987
Grande Official da Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul, República Brasilia

10-05-1987
Doctor of Humanities, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri

26-05-1987
Doctor honoris causa of Economic Sciences, Georg-August University, Göttingen

31-03-1989
Order of Isabel la Católica, Spain

13-04-1989
Grand Cross of Merit with Star, Federal Republic of Germany

12-10-1989
Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold with Star for Services for the Republic of Austria

30-06-1990
Awarded honorary citizenship of the City of Wolfsburg

15-11-1990
Golden Steering Wheel – as a personal award

19-04-1991
Award of the Scientific Council of the TU Chemnitz, Doctor-Ing. E.h.

06-09-1991
Gran Cruz de la Orden des Merite Civil, Spain

08-11-1991
Man of the Year (Motor), Madrid

12-12-1991
Bambi, economy segment, Wiesbaden

14-01-1992
Car of the Year, Madrid

24-02-1992
Man of the Year, Automotive News, Detroit

15-06-1992
European Businessman of the Year 1992, Madrid

1992
1st Agricola Prize for Politics and Economics, St. Glauchau

06-11-1992
Dr. rer. pol. h.c., economic university Prague

02-12-1992
Supreme Presidents Trophy, The British Guild of Motoring Writers, London

17-03-1993
Honorary doctorate, TU Bratislava, Slovakia

08-07-1993
Honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol

21-07-1993
MBA h.c. Instituto de Empresa

1994
Honorary citizen of the city of Chemnitz

09-01-1998
Honorary Citizen of the City of Zwickau

1999
Outstanding Director of Corporate America

02-11-2000
Award of the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony

20-06-2001
Award of the Kyrgyz Order of “Thanks”

06-11-2002
Honorary Professorship for “Industrial Corporate Strategies”
at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau (FH)

April 2003
Honorary citizen of the city of Changchun, China

February 2006
Inducted into the “European Automotive Hall of Fame”, Geneva

2008
Honorary Plaque of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Prague

2008
Award as “Luminary in China Automotive Industry”, Beijing, China

15-04-2011
Commemorative Medal of the Czech Senate in silver

04-07-2012
Honorary Professorship, University “Construction, Transport and Architecture”, Kyrgyzstan

28-10-2014
Medal of Merit of the Czech Republic

2014
Renaming of the vocational schools Wolfsburg I to Carl Hahn School, Wolfsburg

10-10-2016
Medal of Merit of the Slovak Republic

15-12-2018
Men of the year, Beijing, Chna

26-07-2021