Pour le Merite for lower ranking officers.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi,

 

am I correct in thinking the only Leutnant to get the PLM are Rommel and Robert Hieronymus?

Thanks

Chris

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Hello Chris.

Others who come to mind are:
Lt. E. Juenger;

Lt. F. Schoerner,

There should be a few more but I cannot get to my reference book just now.

Bernhard H. Holst

[Chris Boonzaier]

Ach! How could I forget those two!!!

[jaba1914]

• Max Immelmann
• Werner Voss
• Fritz Rumey
• Paul Bäumer
• Josef Jacobs
• Heinrich Gontermann
• Karl Bolle

And some more

 

Kind regards

Alex

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi,

 

sorry, I should have specified, ground troops. The airmen had other criteria and were able to prove themselves in single combat.

Best

Chris

[Dave Danner]

A few more. I might have missed some.

• Hans Markmann, Leutnant, IR 186
• Kurt Rackow, Leutnant, IR 158
• Karl Rothenburg, Leutnant der Reserve, 5.GRzF
• Fritz Rümmelein, Leutnant der Reserve, RIR 87
• Walther Schnieber, Leutnant, IR 63
• Emil Trebing, Leutnant der Reserve, IR 370
• Karl Willweber, Leutnant der Reserve, 2.GRzF

 

[Dave Danner]

Also some infantry Oberleutnants:

• Cordt v. Brandis, Oberleutnant, IR 24, for Fort Douaumont
• Heinrich Brinkord, Oberleutnant der Reserve, RIR 92
• Daniel Gerth, Oberleutnant, Fhr. III./IR 150
• Hans v. Ravenstein, Oberleutnant, FR 37, promoted to Hauptmann 3 days before the award of the plM.

[Bayern]

Take a look to the german page Liste der ritter der pour le merite orden . Wikipedia . really the junior officers are a minority along the centuries . there a few strange examples one a neapolitan general other the japanese marshall Nogi who defeated Russia . Enver pasha and the bulgarian Jekov are political examples . 

[Les]

In the aviation group are a small number of observers who were awarded the PLM.

Leutnant Hans Georg Horn was a former infantry officer who became a flying observer in 1915, and in 1916-1917 specialized in low level ground attacks from the back-seat of a Junkers all metal mono-wing. He was decorated with the PlM in December 1917, and on the same day his pilot was decorated with the GMVK.

Horn's stuff is in a private collection. ;)