Recipients
Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle in Gold with Diamonds
- Benito Mussolini
Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle in Gold
The Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle in Gold was awarded fourteen times:
- Ion Antonescu, Chief-of-staff of the Romanian army
- King Boris III of Bulgaria
- Galeazzo Ciano Conte di Cortelazzo, Italy
- Francisco Franco, Spanish politician (defacto Regent of Spain and general (last holder of the Grand Cross at the time of his death in 1975).
- Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Reichsminister
- Admiral Miklós Horthy, Hungary
- Field Marshal Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish armed forces
- General Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese ambassador
- Risto Ryti, President of Finland
- Constantin Freiherr von Neurath, Reich Foreign Minister
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, Reich Foreign Minister
- Jozef Tiso, Slovak president 1939-1945 awarded twice: for war with Poland 1939 and for invading into the USSR 1942
- Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Italian general
Other classes
Number awarded unknown.
- Emil Kirdof, director of the Gelsenkirchen industrial consortium (awarded by Hitler on 8 April 1937).
- Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, 1937. Watson was also president of the International Chamber of Commerce in 1937; the medal was awarded while the ICC was meeting in Germany that year.
- Henry Ford was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle on his 75th birthday, 30 July 1938.
- General Olof Thörnell, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, was awarded the Grand Cross of the German Eagle 7 October 1940.
- Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Order of the German Eagle with Star 19 October 1938.
- James Mooney, General Motors' chief executive for overseas operations, was awarded Order of the German Eagle 1st Class.
- Ing. Ugo Conte (1884–1951), Rome Chief Engineer, was awarded Order of German Eagle 2nd Class on 16 December 1938 for leading team in the construction of first German motorway.
- Swedish explorer Sven Hedin was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle on his 75th birthday on 19 February 1940.
- Finnish Minister of Defence Rudolf Walden was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle.
- Finnish leader of the Lotta Svärd organization Fanni Luukkonen was awarded the Order of the German Eagle with Star on May 19, 1943. She was the only non-German woman to receive the medal.
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