Bavarian Order of Merit

Bavarian Order of Merit
Awarded by the Minister-President of Bavaria
Type Order of Merit
Established 11 June 1957
Country Bavaria, Germany
Eligibility Men and women without distinction of nationality or class[1]
Awarded for Outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria and the Bavarian people[1]
Status Currently awarded
Founder Wilhelm Hoegner
Ordensherr Markus Söder
Statistics
Total inductees 5,602 (as of August 2018)[2]
Precedence
Next (higher) Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Related Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown
Order of the Lion of Bavaria

Ribbon bar of the order

The Bavarian Order of Merit (German: 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".[1]

The order was instituted by law on 11 June 1957. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet can nominate awardees.

Hemmerle,[3] a German jewellery house based in Munich founded in 1893, is the only exclusive maker of the Bavarian Order of Merit since it was instituted in 1957.

Recipients

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bayerische Staatsregierung. "Bayerischer Verdienstorden". Bayerischer Landesportal (in German). Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  2. ↑ Bayerische Staatsregierung. "Bayerischer Verdienstorden" (in German). Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Hemmerle Website". Hemmerle. Retrieved 2016-06-27.


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