Bavarian Order of Merit
The Bavarian Order of Merit (Bayerischer Verdienstorden) is the Order of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria. It is awarded by the Minister-President of Bavaria as a "recognition of outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria and the Bavarian people". The order was instituted by law on 11 June 1957.
Bavarian Order of Merit
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Alwin Seifert
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Ana Chumachenco
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Annette Kolb
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Annette Thoma
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Anselm Grün
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Axel von Ambesser
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Benno Kusche
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Bernd Eichinger
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Carl Oesterley
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Carl Sattler
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Caroline Link
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Christiane Karg
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Colin Davis
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Diana Damrau
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Dieter Sattler
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Diethard Hellmann
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The Prime Minister and the Cabinet can nominate awardees. Hemmerle, a German jewellery house based in Munich founded in 1893, is the exclusive maker of the Bavarian Order of Merit since it was instituted in 1957. List of recipients • Hermann Josef Abs • Ann-Kristin Achleitner • Josef Ackermann (journalist) • Lea Ackermann • Konrad Adenauer • Percy Adlon • Mario Adorf • Josef Afritsch • Heinrich Aigner • Ilse Aigner • Korbinian Aigner • Werner Andreas Albert • Walter Althammer • Paul Althaus • Axel von Ambesser • Tobias Angerer • Willi Ankermüller • Gisela Anton • Evangelos Averoff • Georg Bachmann • Rudolf Bachmann • Friedrich Baethgen • Michael Ballhaus • Klaus Barthel • Władysław Bartoszewski • Rainer Barzel • Baudouin of Belgium • Friedrich L. Bauer • Heinz Bauer • Josef Bauer (politician) • Gustl Bayrhammer • Augustin Bea • Walter Becher • Franz Beckenbauer • Günther Beckstein • Heinrich Bedford-Strohm • Hildegard Behrens • Werner Beierwaltes • Heinrich Bender (conductor) • Pope Benedict XVI • Lilian Benningsen • Iris Berben • Roland Berger • Senta Berger • Mathilde Berghofer-Weichner • Karl-Friedrich Beringer • Lennart Bernadotte • Sonja Bernadotte • Otto Bernheimer • Christian Bernreiter • Anton Betz • Gerhard Bletschacher • Peter Boenisch • Willy Bogner Jr. • Kurt Böhme • Uwe Brandl • Eberhard von Brauchitsch • Klaus Dieter Breitschwert • Beppo Brem • Heinrich von Brentano • Hans Breuer (politician) • Alois von Brinz • Dominik Brunner • Aenne Burda • Franz Burda • Adolf Butenandt • José Carreras • Karl Carstens • Sergiu Celibidache • Jean Charest • Princess Christa of Thurn and Taxis • Hans Clarin • Maurice Couve de Murville • Ernst Cramer (journalist) • Herbert Czaja • Aden Adde • Thomas Dachser • Viktor Josef Dammertz • Diana Damrau • Adolf Dassler • Rudolf Dassler • Colin Davis • Michael S. Davison • Jacques Delors • Albert Dess • Alfred Dick (politician) • Paul Diethei • Helmut Dietl • Uschi Disl • Renate Dodell • Klaus Doldinger • Julius Döpfner • Claude Dornier • Hans Drachsler • Luis Durnwalder • Rudolf Eberhard • Gisela Ehrensperger • Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt • Bernd Eichinger • Hans A. Engelhard • Matthias Engelsberger • Kieth Engen • Karl Engisch • Annette Erös • Reinhard Erös • Kurt Faltlhauser • Brigitte Fassbaender • Hans-Josef Fell • Ludwig Fellermaier • Markus Ferber • Fredl Fesl • Wolfgang Fikentscher • Ernst Otto Fischer • Max Fischer (politician) • Friedrich Flick • Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis • Ludwig Franz • Joseph von Fraunhofer • Gottlob Frick • Ingo Friedrich • Karl von Frisch • Cornelia Froboess • Karl Fuchs (politician) • Joachim Fuchsberger • Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött • Maria Furtwängler • John Galvin (general) • Georg Gänswein • Charles de Gaulle • Peter Gauweiler • Martina Gedeck • Rudolf Geiger • Willi Geiger (painter) • Uschi Glas • Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis • Peter Glotz • Nora-Eugenie Gomringer • Alfons Goppel • Josef Göppel • Silvia Görres • Eveline Gottzein • Franz Götz (politician) • Hugo Grau • Ulrich Grigull • Monika Gruber • Max Grundig • Enoch zu Guttenberg • Wolfgang Haber • Peter Häberle • Otto von Habsburg • Dietmar Hahlweg • Ingeborg Hallstein • Bernhard Häring • Anja Harteros • Gerda Hasselfeldt • Johannes Heesters • Robert Heger • Werner Heisenberg • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck • Josef Henselmann • Wolfgang A. Herrmann • Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte • Wilfried Hiller • Friedrich Högner • Karl Höller • Christiane Hörbiger • Melanie Huml • Mariss Jansons • Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern • Marcus Junkelmann • Konstantinos Karamanlis • Karl, 8th Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg • Ellis Kaut • Joseph Keilberth • Paul Kirchhof • Susanne Klatten • Carlos Kleiber • Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin • Herbert Knaup • Herlinde Koelbl • Juliane Köhler • Peter Jona Korn • Platon Kornyljak • Max Kruse (author) • Rafael Kubelík • Reiner Kunze • Benno Kusche • Bernard Landry • Gottfried Landwehr • Bernhard Langer • Pascalina Lehnert • Franz Lehrndorfer • Robert Lembke • Harald Lesch • Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger • Hans Ritter von Lex • Herbert Loebl • Loriot • Heidi Lück • Prince Luitpold of Bavaria (b. 1951) • Yury Luzhkov • Lorin Maazel • Peter Maffay • Jean Mandel • Max Mannheimer • Ursula Männle • Hubert Markl • Hellmuth Matiasek • Paul Augustin Mayer • Walther Meissner • Otto Meitinger • Maria-Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle • Joachim Milberg • Jürgen Mittelstraß • Walter Mixa • Martha Mödl • Jan Mojto • Alex Möller • Horst Möller • Wolf-Dieter Montag • Hans Müller (politician) • Gebhard Müller • Max Müller (Catholic intellectual) • Thomas Müller • Ann Murray • Anne-Sophie Mutter • Kent Nagano • Marlene Neubauer-Woerner • Christine Neubauer • Manuel Neuer • Angelika Niebler • Asha Noppeney • Theodor Oberländer • Hermann Oberth • Carl Orff • Peter Ostermayr • Wolfhart Pannenberg • Paul of Greece • Max-Josef Pemsel • Oskar Perron • Wolfgang Petersen • Hubertus von Pilgrim • Susanne Porsche • Mirjam Pressler • Otfried Preußler • Hermann Prey • Maria Probst • Karl Pschigode • Josef Pühringer • Liselotte Pulver • Prince Raphael Rainer of Thurn and Taxis • Georg Ratzinger • Hanns Reinartz • Christoph Reiners • Norbert Reithofer • Günther Rennert • Stefan Reuter • Erich Riedl • Herbert Rosendorfer • Marcus H. Rosenmüller • Philip Rosenthal (industrialist) • Claudia Roth • Joseph Rovan • Sep Ruf • Ivo Sanader • Carl Sattler • Dieter Sattler • Robert Sauer (mathematician) • Wolfgang Sawallisch • Lotte Schädle • Georg Schäfer • Anna Schaffelhuber • Fritz Schäffer • Franz Schausberger • Marianne Schech • Volker Schlöndorff • Michael Schmaus • Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden • Christian Schmidt (politician) • Horst R. Schmidt • Heinz Schmidtke • Franz Schnabel • Gabriele Schnaut • Peter Schneider (conductor) • Hanns-Martin Schneidt • Jürgen E. Schrempp • Theobald Schrems • Wolfgang Schüssel • Ernst Schwarz (philologist) • Bastian Schweinsteiger • Roland Schwing • Hanna Schygulla • Hans-Christoph Seebohm • Horst Seehofer • Alwin Seifert • Kurt Semm • Hans Joachim Sewering • Ralph Siegel • Günther Sigl • Queen Silvia of Sweden • Erika Simon • Elke Sommer • Jutta Speidel • Friede Springer • Franz Stadler • Josef Stangl • Heinz Starke • Franz-Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg • Francesco Stefani (film director) • Gisela Stein • Erika Steinbach • Udo Steiner • Josef Stingl • Edmund Stoiber • Franz Josef Strauss • Florian Streibl • Max Streibl • Kurt Suttner • Peter Tamm • Jack Terry • Hans Thamm • Pierre-Marie Théas • Heinz Hermann Thiele • Hertha Töpper • Luis Trenker • Konstantinos Tsatsos • Christian Ude • Erich Valentin • Astrid Varnay • Günter Verheugen • Michael Verhoeven • Konstanze Vernon • Oskar Vierling • Joseph Vilsmaier • Rudolf Voderholzer • Hans-Jochen Vogel • Kurt Vogel (historian) • Miriam Vogt • Karl Vötterle • Franz Vranitzky • Hermann Wagner • Wolfgang Wagner • Theo Waigel • Luggi Waldleitner • Ulrich Walter • Herbert Walther • Felix Wankel • Markus Wasmeier • Friedrich Weber (general) • Bernd Weikl • Grete Weil • Joseph Wendel • Friedrich Wetter • Egon Wiberg • Bernhard Wicki • Georg Wieter • Wolfgang Wild (physicist) • Ulrich Wilhelm • Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker • Fritz Winter • Notker Wolf • Hanns Egon Wörlen • Carl Wurster • Hans F. Zacher • Rosel Zech • Martin Zeil • Walter Ziegler • Eduard Zimmermann • Friedrich Zimmermann • Tanja Kinkel
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Key facts
• Name — Bavarian Order of Merit • Awarded By — the Minister-President of Bavaria • Country — Bavaria, Germany • Type — Order of Merit • Eligibility — Men and women without distinction of nationality or class • For — Outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria and the Bavarian people • Head Title — Ordensherr • Head — Markus Söder • Status — Currently awarded • Founder — Wilhelm Hoegner • Established — 11 June 1957 • Total — 5,602 (As of August 2018) • Higher — Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art • Caption2 — Ribbon bar of the order • Related — Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown Order of the Lion of Bavaria
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- Ana ChumachencoPerson
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- Axel von AmbesserPerson
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- Benno KuschePerson
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- Bernd EichingerPerson
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