Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate

Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate

Awarded by the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate
Country	Germany
Type	Civil order of merit
Awarded for	Outstanding contributions to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
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Established	2 October 1981
Ribbon bar of the order

The Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Verdienstorden des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz) is a civil order of merit, of the German State of Rhineland-Palatinate. The order is presented for outstanding service to the state and people of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate was founded on 2 October 1981, and first awarded in 1982. The order is limited 800 living recipients.^[1] Through 2009, the order had been awarded 991 times.^[2]

References

↑ "Landesverdienstorden | Willkommen in Rheinland-Pfalz" (in German). Rlp.de. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
↑ "Der Verdienstorden des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz" (in German). Ordensmuseum.de. Retrieved 7 May 2012.

Orders of Merit of Germany and the States of Germany

Federal Republic Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Hesse Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia

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