Notable Recipients
- Archduke Eugen of Austria - Austrian general (1st Class with War Decoration 1915, Swords and Diamonds 1917)
- Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen - Austro-Hungarian field marshal in World War I (1st Class with War Decoration 1915)
- Johann von Appel - Austrian general and governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina (MVK with War Decoration in 1849, Diamonds in 1898)
- Prince Albrecht of Prussia - Prussian field marshal and regent of the Duchy of Brunswick (1864)
- Carol I of Romania - King of Romania (1864)
- Engelbert Dollfuss - Austrian Chancellor and veteran of the Great War.
- Gotthard Heinrici - German officer in World War I, later a general in in World War II (3rd Class with War Decoration)
- Paul von Hindenburg - German field marshal in World War I (3rd Class with War Decoration 1914, Diamonds 1915, 1st Class with War Decoration 1917)
- Miklós Horthy - Austro-Hungarian naval officer, later Regent of Hungary (3rd Class with War Decoration)
- Erich Ludendorff - German general in World War I (1st Class with War Decoration 1917)
- Erich von Manstein - German officer in World War I, later a field marshal in World War II (3rd Class with War Decoration 1916)
- August von Mackensen - German field marshal in World War I (1st Class with War Decoration and Diamonds 1915)
- Erwin Rommel - German officer in World War I, later a field marshal in World War II (3rd Class with War Decoration and Swords)
- Ferdinand Schörner - German officer in World War I, later a field marshal in World War II (3rd Class with War Decoration 1916)
- Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma - German officer in World War I, later a general in in World War II (3rd Class with War Decoration 1916)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Ottoman colonel in early period of World War I; later Mareşal, President and founder of the Republic of Turkey (3rd Class with War Decoration 1916)
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