Orders and Medals
Prussian / Imperial German
- Pour le Mérite, 12 January 1916, after his eighth victory
- Iron Cross, First Class, January 27, 1915
- Iron Cross, Second Class, December 10, 1914
- Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Knight’s Cross with Swords, 1 November 1916, after his sixth victory
- Life Saving Medal, 12 December 1915, for saving Albert DePlace from drowning in the canal, 29 August 1915
Duchy of Anhalt
- House Order of Albert the Bear, Knight’s Cross, First Class
- House Order of Albert the Bear, Knight’s Cross, Second Class
- Friedrich Cross, Second Class
Kingdom of Bavaria
- Military Merit Order, Fourth Class with Swords
Other
- Military Order for Bravery, Third Class (Kingdom of Bulgaria), 9 August 1916
- Turkish War Medal of 1915 (Ottoman Empire), awarded personally by Enver Pascha, 15 July 1916
- Imtiyaz Medal (Ottoman Empire)
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“There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.”
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