GdI Berthold von Deimling

[Deutschritter]

Here are the decorations I have for Berthold Karl Adolf von Deimling, great thanks to Dave Danner for his help:

 

Red Eagle Order (Roter Adlerorden), 4th Class on 12 September 1894

Prussian Centenary Medal (Zentenarmedaille), 1897

Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion (Orden vom Zähringer Löwen), Knight's Cross I. Class (BZL3a/BZ3a)

Prussian Long Service Cross for 25 years (Königlich Preußisches Dienstauszeichnungskreuz)

Order of the Crown (Preußischer Kronenorden), 3rd Class on 13 May 1897

Military Merit Order (Bavaria), Knight's Cross I. Class (BMV3a)

Officer's Cross of the Italian Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (JMuL4/JM4)

Fürstlich Schwarzburgisches Ehrenkreuz, II. Class (SEK2)

Albrechts-Orden of Saxony, Commander (Komtur) II. Class (SA2b)

Commander's Cross of the Italian Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (JM3)

Franz-Joseph-Orden, Commander (ÖFJ2)

later reclassified as ÖFJ2b, Commander without Star

Red Eagle Order, 3rd Class with the Bow on 18 January 1904

Prussian Order of the Crown, 2nd Class with Swords on 3 November 1904

Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion, Commander 2nd Class with Swords (BZ2b⚔)

Military Merit Order (Bavaria), 2nd class with Swords (BMV2⚔)

Mecklenburgisches Militärverdienstkreuz, II. Klasse (MMV2)

Swords to his Saxon Albrechts-Orden, Commander (Komtur) II. Class (SA2b⚔)

Friedrichs-Orden, Commander's Cross (Kommenturkreuz) 2nd Class with Swords (WF2b⚔)

Südwest-Afrika Denkmünze with five battle clasps

Red Eagle Order, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves on 18 January 1909

Star with Swords on Ring to his Prussian Order of the Crown, 2nd Class with Swords on 18 January 1910

Star to his Red Eagle Order, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves on 18 January 1913

Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion, Grand Cross (BZ1)

Prussian Order of the Crown, 1st Class with Swords on Ring on 15 June 1913

Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class

Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with Swords (WK1⚔) on 20 November 1914

Military Merit Order (Bavaria), 1st class with Swords (BMV1⚔) on 31 March 1915

Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order, Commander (1st Class) with Star on 31 July 1915

Albrechts-Orden of Saxony, Grand Cross with the Golden Star and Swords (SA1mgSt⚔) on 15 December 1915

Pour le Mérite on 28 August 1916

Red Eagle Order, Grand Cross with Swords on 23 June 1917

Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer

 

Honours:

 

Elevation to the hereditary nobility on 9 November 1905 by Kaiser Wilhelm II

Member of the board of directors of the Upper Baden branch of the German Colonial Society

Honorary Chairman of the Freiburg Navy Association (Ehrenvorsitzender des Freiburger Marinevereins), 1912

Regimentschef (Colonel-in-Chief) of the 1. Unter-Elsässisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 132 on 25 May 1917

 

Edited February 16, 2023 by Deutschritter

[Dave Danner]

Deimling was a native Badener who entered service in a Baden formation. As such, he qualified for the 1902 Regierungsjubiläumsmedaille. It is between the Bavarian and Schwarzburg crosses on his medal bar above.

[ccj]