Max Immelmann - Orders and Medals

Orders and Medals

Kingdom of Saxony

  • Military Order of St. Henry, Knight Commander, 30 March 1916, after his 12th and 13th victories
  • Military Order of St. Henry, Knight, 21 September 1915
  • Albert Order, Knight's Cross with Swords
  • (Silver) Friedrich August Medal, “For Gallantry in the Face of the Enemy”, 15 July 1915

Kingdom of Prussia / Imperial German

  • Pour le Mérite, 12 January 1916, after his eighth victory
  • Iron Cross, First Class, 1 August 1915, after his first victory
  • Iron Cross, Second Class, 3 June 1915, after flying a successful reconnaissance mission with Lt. von Teubern (observer)
  • Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Knight's Cross with Swords, November 1915

Kingdom of Bavaria

  • Military Merit Order, Fourth Class, ca. 6–12 December 1915

Miscellaneous German

  • Hanseatic Cross (Hamburg), 15 March 1916, after flying aerial defense for the Mayor of Hamburg

Other

  • The Turkish War Medal of 1915 (Ottoman Empire), April/May 1916
  • Imtiyaz Medal in Silver (Ottoman Empire), April/May 1916

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