Bavarian Order of Merit

Bavarian Order of Merit
The Bavarian Order of Merit 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. 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.
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
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
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
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
References
External links
Searchable database with all recipients
1957 establishments in West Germany
Awards established in 1957
Culture of Bavaria
Orders, decorations, and medals of Bavaria
Orders, decorations, and medals of the states of Germany