Notable Recipients
- Sepp Dietrich (3rd Class with Swords) - Bavarian soldier; later Waffen SS general.
- Hans Ehard (1st Class with Swords on the Ribbon for War Merit) - Bavarian military official, later Minister-President of Bavaria (1946–54 and 1960–62).
- Ludwig Erhard (3rd Class with Swords) - Bavarian artillery soldier, later Chancellor of West Germany.
- Adolf Hitler (3rd Class with Swords) - Bavarian Gefreiter and later dictator of the Third Reich.
- Otto Kissenberth (2nd Class with Swords) - German flying ace of World War I.
- Max Ritter von Müller (3rd Class with Crown and Swords) - German flying ace of World War I.
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