List of recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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This is a list of notable recipients of the top two classes Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Grand Crosses Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Royal Houses
- King Albert II of Belgium
- King Philippe of Belgium
- King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
- King Juan Carlos I of Spain
- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
- Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Queen Elizabeth II
- King Birendra of Nepal
- Prince Claus of the Netherlands
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
- Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- King Hassanal Bolkiah
- King Hussein of Jordan
- Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
- Queen Silvia of Sweden
- Queen Sirikit of Thailand
- Queen Sofía of Spain
- Queen Sonja of Norway
- Empress Farah Pahlavi
- Queen Paola of Belgium
- Queen Mathilde of Belgium
- Queen Aishwarya of Nepal
- Queen Frederica of Hanover
- Queen Rania of Jordan
- Queen Ratna of Nepal
- Qaboos bin Said al Said
- King Paul of Greece
- King Mahendra of Nepal
- King Olav V of Norway
- Emperor Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Emperor Haile Selassie I
- Emperor Emeritus Akihito of Japan
- Empress Emerita Michiko of Japan
- Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg
- Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Presidents of the Federal Republic of Germany
The president receives the Grand Cross Special Class ex officio.
- Karl Carstens
- Joachim Gauck
- Gustav Heinemann
- Roman Herzog
- Theodor Heuss
- Horst Köhler
- Heinrich Lübke
- Johannes Rau
- Walter Scheel
- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- Richard von Weizsäcker
- Christian Wulff
Other Grand Crosses Special Class
- Valdas Adamkus
- Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa
- Amha Selassie
- Ásgeir Ásgeirsson
- Azlan Shah of Perak
- Fulgencio Batista
- Celâl Bayar
- Andrew Bertie
- Paul Biya
- George H. W. Bush
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- Francesco Cossiga
- Luigi Einaudi
- Guido de Marco
- Süleyman Demirel
- António Ramalho Eanes
- Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari
- Eduardo Frei Montalva
- Arturo Frondizi
- Árpád Göncz
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Giovanni Gronchi
- Dalia Grybauskaitė
- Tarja Halonen
- Václav Havel
- François Hollande
- Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
- Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan
- Andrej Kiska
- Theodor Körner
- Empress Kōjun
- Juscelino Kubitschek
- John Kufuor
- Aleksander Kwaśniewski
- José María Lemus
- Diosdado Macapagal
- Paul Magloire
- Makarios III
- Andrés Martínez Trueba
- Sergio Mattarella
- Lennart Meri
- Giorgio Napolitano
- Sauli Niinistö
- Manuel A. Odría
- Seán T. O'Kelly
- Óscar Osorio
- Víctor Paz Estenssoro
- Marcos Pérez Jiménez
- Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson
- Rosen Plevneliev
- Manuel Prado Ugarteche
- Marc Ravalomanana
- Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
- Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
- Adolf Schärf
- Eduard Shevardnadze
- Luis Somoza Debayle
- Josip Broz Tito
- Ahmed Sékou Touré
- Héctor Trujillo
- Rafael Trujillo
- William Tubman
- Guntis Ulmanis
- Getúlio Vargas
- Raimonds Vējonis
- José María Velasco Ibarra
- Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
- Lech Wałęsa
- Odilo Weeger
- Miloš Zeman
Grand Crosses Special Issue of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
References
- ^ "Bundesverdienstkreuz mit Lorbeerkranz für Kohl". Rhein-Zeitung. 26 October 1998. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
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