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Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
Award of Baden-Württemberg, Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (German: Verdienstorden des Landes Baden-Württemberg) is the highest award of the German State of Baden-Württemberg. Established 26 November 1974, it was originally called the Medal of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (Die Verdienstmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg). Effective 26 June 2009, the medal assumed its current name.[2]
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The order is awarded by the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg for outstanding contributions to the state of Baden-Württemberg, in politics, society, culture and economics. The order is limited to 1,000 living holders, and has been awarded 1,923 times, as of 30 April 2018.[1]
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History
The form of the Order of Merit was fundamentally changed by an amendment to the foundation announcement on 3 February 2016. Since then, the Order of Merit is no longer awarded as a medal, but in the form of a stylised cross with a medallion in the middle, on which the large state coat of arms with the lettering „Baden-Württemberg“ is depicted.[3]
Notable recipients
- Helmut Eberspächer (1979)[4]
- Artur Fischer (1980)[4]
- Ulf Merbold (1983)[4]
- Walter Haeussermann (1985)[4]
- Anne-Sophie Mutter (1999)[4][5]
- Dorothee Hess-Maier (1999)[6]
- Jürgen Klinsmann (2001)[4]
- Gerhard Thiele (2001)[4]
- Klaus Zehelein (2001)[4]
- Wolfgang Ketterle (2002)[4]
- Svetlana Geier (2003)
- Wolfgang Rihm (2004)[7]
- Queen Silvia of Sweden (2007)
- Roland Emmerich (2007)[4]
- Henry Kissinger (2007)[4]
- Stelian Moculescu (2008)[8]
- Edmund Stoiber (2009)
- Hanna von Hoerner (2009)
- Eric Carle (2010)[4]
- Jean-Claude Juncker (2010)[4]
- Sami Khedira (2016)[9]
- Lucia A. Reisch (2017)[4]
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References
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