Order of The Black Eagle - Knights

Knights

  • Otto von Bismarck - Prussian chancellor and statesman.
  • Gebhard von Blücher - Prussian Field Marshal and leader of Prussian troops at the Battle of Leipzig and Battle of Waterloo.
  • Bernhard von Bülow - German chancellor and statesman.
  • Ernst von Pfuel - Prussian general and Prime Minister of Prussia.
  • Karl von Einem - World War I-era German general and Minister of War.
  • Prince Philip of Eulenburg - German politician and diplomat.
  • Count Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein - Prussian Field Marshal under Frederick William I of Prussia
  • Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein - Prussian Prime Minister under Frederic the Great
  • August von Gneisenau - Napoleonic-era Prussian field marshal. His insignia of the order was formerly Napoleon's.
  • Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler - German field marshal.
  • Paul von Hindenburg - World War I-era German Field Marshal and later president of Germany.
  • Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf - Napoleonic-era Prussian General (promoted to field marshal two days before his death).
  • August von Mackensen - World War I-era German Field Marshal.
  • Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta - French politician; first President of the Third Republic.
  • Adolph Menzel - German artist.
  • Helmuth von Moltke the Elder - Prussian Field Marshal of the German wars of unification. Served as chancellor of the Order of the Black Eagle.
  • Napoléon Bonaparte - Admitted in 1803 when he was First Consul.
  • Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts - Received the Order in 1901 - British Commander-in-Chief of the Forces
  • Count Alfred von Schlieffen - German Field Marshal and strategist
  • Gustav von Senden-Bibran an admiral of the German Imperial Navy
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz - Prussian Cavalry General under Frederick the Great.
  • Friedrich Bertram Sixt von Armin - World War I-era German General.
  • Alexander Suvorov - Napoleonic-era Russian General and Generalissimo.
  • Alfred von Tirpitz - German Admiral.
  • Alfred von Waldersee - German Field Marshal and Supreme Commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance in the Boxer Rebellion.
  • Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg - Napoleonic-era Prussian Field Marshal.
  • Johann Jakob von Wunsch - Wuerttemberg-born Prussian general.

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