Bavarian Order of Merit

Bavarian Order of Merit
Bavarian Order of Merit;
	Badge of the order for women
Awarded by the Minister-President of Bavaria
Type	Order of Merit
Established	11 June 1957
Country	Bavaria, Germany
Eligibility	Men and women without distinction of nationality or class
Awarded for	Outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria and the Bavarian people
Status	Currently awarded
Founder	Wilhelm Hoegner
Ordensherr	Markus Söder
Statistics
Total inductees	5,602 (as of August 2018)
Precedence
Next (higher)	Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
Related	Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown ; Order of the Lion of Bavaria
	; Ribbon bar of the order; ;

The Bavarian Order of Merit (German: Bayerischer Verdienstorden) is the Order of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria. It is awarded by the Minister-President of Bavaria as a "recognition of outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria and the Bavarian people".^[1]

The order was instituted by law on 11 June 1957. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet can nominate awardees.

Hemmerle,^[3] a German jewellery house based in Munich founded in 1893, is the exclusive maker of the Bavarian Order of Merit since it was instituted in 1957.

List of recipients

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Bayerische Staatsregierung. "Bayerischer Verdienstorden". Bayerischer Landesportal (in German). Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ Bayerische Staatsregierung. "Bayerischer Verdienstorden" (in German). Retrieved 30 August 2018.
^ "Hemmerle Website". Hemmerle. Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
^ Hartsch, E. (2010). Maffay – Auf dem Weg zu mir (in German). C. Bertelsmann Verlag. p. 405. ISBN 978-3-641-05009-2. Retrieved 10 January 2021.