Artillery General and Adjutant General on 19 December 1912 Maximilian von Seinsheim, Bavarian Court on 19 December 1912 Victor von Podbielski, Prussian Minister of State on 16 June 1913 Walter Reinhold von Mossner, Prussian general of the cavalry on 16 June 1913 Clemens von Delbrück, Prussian Minister of State on 24 June 1914 Baron von Hammerstein-Loxten, Prussian general of infantry on 12 May 1917 Reinhold Krämer, Prussian Secretary of the Post Office on 6 August 1917 General Paul von Ploetz, Prussian general of infantry on 13 March 1918 Recipients with swords Kanin, Prince of Japan on 22 March 1906 Prince Ōyama Iwao, Marquis and Japanese Marshal on 22 March 1906 Karl Ludwig d'Elsa, Saxon Colonel General on 2 January 1917 Ernst Konrad von Gossler, Prussian general of infantry on 10 February 1917 Ernst von Hoiningen, Prussian general of infantry on 6 March 1917 Recipients with diamonds Maximilian von Seinsheim, Bavarian Court on 15 December 1913 References Bibliography Jörg Nimmergut: Deutsche Orden und Ehrenzeichen bis 1945. Band 2. Limburg – Reuss. Zentralstelle für wissenschaftliche Ordenskunde, München 1997, . Kurt-Gerhard Klietmann: Der Verdienstorden der Preußischen Krone, Mitteilung aus dem Institut für Wissenschaftliche Ordenskunde, Der Herold - Band 12, 32. Jahrgang 1989, Heft 9 Orders, decorations, and medals of Prussia Orders of chivalry of Germany Kingdom of Prussia Awards established in 1901 1901 establishments in Germany