Pour le Mérite

Pour le Mérite is a military decoration or civil decoration.

Also recorded as Pour le Merite.

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Overview

Kingdom of Prussia's highest order of merit.

Recorded constituent parts are Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order.

It is associated with Prussia. The record gives 1740 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 1933.

Each connection was recorded deliberately, with the basis for it kept on the internal record.

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Alexander Emanuel AgassizAuthor
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Anton RubinsteinPerson
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Axel Otto MörnerEngraver
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Carl DahlhausPerson
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Friedrich von BernhardiAuthor
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Hermann von FrançoisAuthor
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Karl Ludwig von LecoqAuthor
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Ludwig UhlandAuthor
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Max von GallwitzAuthor
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Niels GadePerson
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Paul von Lettow-VorbeckAuthor
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Wilhelm WundtAuthor
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1.
“Pour le Mérite”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q156478: Pour le Mérite
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