About the site and creators

This website is dedicated to the history of the Prussian Pour le Mérite Order. Information is researched and presented about both aspects of the Order; the Military division and the Science & Arts division. The creators of the website are not eccentric millionaires, unfortunately, so time and resources come when economics permit it. This also means that changes and additions to the website come slowly.

This website may also load slowly depending upon the type of Internet connection you have. The designers have decided to place larger than normal photos on this site due to the fact that people who love history or are doing research generally like to have big clear pictures to view. So please be patient because these large photos are up for your benefit.

We also accept many photos and artwork from guests who love the topic. Some of these submissions have come from families of the recipients and a big THANK YOU goes out to them for sharing their information about their family members. We would appreciate hearing from more family members of recipients.

Further completions of sections of the website are planned for the future, so please come back and visit us from time to time to see what is happening. And if you know of any wealthy philanthropists that wish to help provide funding, well, send them our way.

And lastly, if you would like to email us with a question or send of a photo of something of interest, please do. We try to respond to emails within a week, but do receive a lot of Spam email (98%), so if we don't respond, then your message may have been lost. Please email us back again.

Plans to upgrade the website during the Fall of 2007 was not feasible considering the amount of time required. The new software has recently shown itself to be unstable; therefore, we have opted to stay with the old fashion hand coded site until we find something we deem to be reliable.

Thank you,
Gretchen Winkler and
Kurt M. von Tiedemann
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