decorations Order of the Red Eagle, First Class with oak leaves Order of the Crown, First Class (Prussia) Iron Cross of 1870, 2nd class Service Cross (Prussia) Commander Second Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion (Baden) Grand Cross of the Albert Order (Saxony) Lippe House Order, 1st class Gold Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece) Officer's Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Savoy) Commander of the Order of Franz Joseph (Austria-Hungary) Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown (Romania) Grand Cross of Military Merit (Spain) Order of the Medjidie, 3rd class (Ottoman Empire) Iron Cross of 1914, 1st Class Pour le Mérite with oak leaves Pour le Mérite on 20 August 1916 Oak Leaves on 15 May 1918 References Campion, Loren Keith. "Behind the modern Drang nach Osten: Baltic émigrés and russophobia in nineteenth-century Germany." Dissertation, Indiana University, 1965. Tuchman, Barbara W., The Guns of August, New York: Macmillan 1962. External links Pöhlmann, Markus: Bernhardi, Friedrich von, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. https://archive.org/details/greatbritainnext0000doyl 1849 births 1930 deaths People from the Province of Silesia German untitled nobility German military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War German Army generals of World War I German military writers Generals of Cavalry (Prussia) Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class) German military historians Commanders of the Order of Franz Joseph Recipients of the Iron Cross (1870), 2nd class Officers of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus Grand Officers of the Order of the Crown (Romania) Grand Crosses of Military Merit Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie, 3rd class Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class Baltic nobility German male non-fiction writers