Order of Merit of the Prussian Crown

The Order of Merit of the Prussian Crown (Verdienstorden der Preußischen Krone) was an award of civil and military merit established 18 January 1901 by King Wilhelm II on the occasion of the bicentennial of the establishment of the Kingdom of Prussia. The order was presented in one class and consisted of a badge and a breast star. For military merit the award was presented with crossed swords. The order was presented once with diamonds.

Order of Merit of the Prussian Crown
Verdienstorden der Preußischen Krone

18 January 1901

Gott Mit Uns

Civilian and Military

exceptional civil or military merit

13 March 1918

Order of the Black Eagle

Order of the Red Eagle

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Description of the award[edit]

The order consists of a badge, worn on a sash from right shoulder to the left hip, and a star worn on the left chest:

The badge of the order is a blue-enamelled, eighteen-karat, yellow-gold Maltese cross with a granular border. In each of the compartments between the four arms of the cross is a red-enamelled crown surmounting the royal monogram ("W II", for Wilhelm II). The central disc on the obverse of the badge shows a golden crown with red enamel, surrounded by a blue-enamelled circular band bearing the gold-lettered motto, "Gott Mit Uns". The disc on the reverse bears the intertwined initials "IR W II" (for "Imperator Rex Wilhelm II": "Emperor King William II"), encircled by the date "18 January 1901".

The star of the order is a golden eight-pointed star with straight rays, displaying the central disc from the obverse of the badge.

The sash of the order is blue, edged with orange stripes.

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King William II of Prussia on 18 January 1901

Regent of the Duchy of Braunschweig on 18 January 1901

Prince Albert of Prussia

Baron , Prussian colonel general of cavalry and adjutant general on 18 January 1901

Walter von Loë

Count , Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs on 21 September 1901

Vladimir Lamsdorf

Count , German Ambassador in London on 8 November 1901^[1]

Paul von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg

Ottoman Grand Vizier on 24 May 1902

Küçük Mehmet Sait Pasha

Crown Prince of Siam, on 30 May 1902, during a visit to Berlin^[2]

Vajiravudh

Italian Foreign Minister, in late August 1902, during the visit to Germany of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy^[3]

Giulio Prinetti

Otto von Berg Strub, Prussian general of infantry, 21 October 1902

Prince , Prussian Chief President on 22 June 1903

Hermann von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg

Konrad Ernst von Gossler, Prussian general of infantry on 14 August 1903

Arthur Freiherr von Bolfras, Austrian field-marshal and Adjutant General on 18 September 1903

Count Uexküll-Gyllenband, Austrian general and commander of the 2nd Cavalry Corps on 18 September 1903

Count of Abensperg and Traun, Austrian Colonel-Kämmerer 19 September 1903

Hungarian Prime Minister on 19 September 1903

Count Károly Khuen-Héderváry

British Ambassador in Berlin on 30 June 1904

Henry Lascelles

Ottoman Grand Vizier on 24 September 1904

Damat Ferid Pasha

Eberhardt zu Solms-Sonnewalde, Prussian Ambassador 18 October 1904

Albert von Mischke, Prussian general and adjutant general of the infantry on 18 October 1904

Edler von der Planitz, Austrian general of the Cavalry and Inspector General of Cavalry, on 24 April 1905

Strukoff, Russian General of Cavalry and Adjutant General on 4 June 1905

Count , Prussian Minister of State on 2 July 1905

August zu Eulenburg

Graf zu Castell-Castell, Bavarian Lieutenant-General and High Steward on 14 November 1905

Austrian Prime Minister on 22 June 1906

Baron Max Wladimir von Beck

Hungarian Prime Minister on 22 June 1906

Sándor Wekerle

Fiedler, Austrian artillery commander and commanding general of First Army Corps on 7 May 1908

Leopold Graf Gudenus, Austrian Colonel-eunuch on 7 May 1908

Graf Cziráky von Czirák und Dénesfalva, Austrian Obersthofmarschall on 7 May 1908

Swedish Prime Minister on 3 August 1908

Arvid Lindman

Swedish general of the infantry on 3 August 1908

Hemming Gadd

Saxon Infantry General and Minister of State on 10 September 1908

Max von Hausen

Ottoman Marshal on 10 September 1908

Ahmed Tevfik Pasha

Prussian general of infantry on 1 March 1909

Julius von Verdy du Vernois

Russian Prime Minister on 17 June 1909

Pyotr Arkadyevitch Stolypin

head of the Austrian General Staff on 9 September 1909

Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf

Franz Freiherr von Schoen Aich, Austrian Infantry General and Minister of War on 9 September 1909

Bavarian Infantry General and Minister of War on 17 September 1909

Carl von Horn

Wilhelm von Linden-Suden, Prussian general of infantry on 7 April 1911

Hermann von Blomberg, Prussian general of infantry on 13 September 1911

Georg von Kleist, Prussian general of the cavalry on 6 April 1912

Jules Greindl, Belgian Minister of State on 24 May 1912

Russian Foreign Minister on 4 July 1912

Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov

Hans von Kirchbach, Saxon general of the artillery on 13 September 1912

major Japanese Privy Seal on 19 September 1912

Prince Katsura Tarō

Peter von Wiedenmann, Bavarian Artillery General and Adjutant General on 19 December 1912

Maximilian von Seinsheim, Bavarian Court on 19 December 1912

Victor von Podbielski, Prussian Minister of State on 16 June 1913

Walter Reinhold von Mossner, Prussian general of the cavalry on 16 June 1913

Prussian Minister of State on 24 June 1914

Clemens von Delbrück

Baron von Hammerstein-Loxten, Prussian general of infantry on 12 May 1917

Reinhold Krämer, Prussian Secretary of the Post Office on 6 August 1917

General Paul von Ploetz, Prussian general of infantry on 13 March 1918

Jörg Nimmergut: Deutsche Orden und Ehrenzeichen bis 1945. Band 2. Limburg – Reuss. Zentralstelle für wissenschaftliche Ordenskunde, München 1997, 3-00-001396-2.

ISBN

Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann: Der Verdienstorden der Preußischen Krone, Mitteilung aus dem Institut für Wissenschaftliche Ordenskunde, Der Herold - Band 12, 32. Jahrgang 1989, Heft 9

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Order of Merit of the Prussian Crown