Order of Leopold (Austria)

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Both the Grand Cross and the First Class members of the Order wore (on formal occasions) their insignia in the form of a sash with the badge attached to the bow and respectively an eight-pointed and a four-pointed breast star. The Grand Cross was somewhat larger than the First Class, as was the width of the sash. A Commander's badge was worn at the neck, suspended from a 52 mm wide ribbon; a Knight wore his badge on a triangular ribbon on the left breast.

The badge consists of a red-enameled gold cross, with white enamel edging. The obverse of the badge displays the initials FIA in gold on a red enamel background. The mottoes of the Order were INTEGRITATI ET MERITO and OPES REGUM CORDA SUBDITORUM. The ribbon of the Order is red with two narrow white side-stripes. The badge's cross is surmounted by a golden imperial crown.

The Grand Cross could also be awarded with diamonds; from 1808 to 1918, only four people received this honour. The last recipient, Count Ernst von Silva-Tarouca, was awarded the decoration on 11 November 1918, hours before Charles I of Austria withdrew from public affairs. After 1918, the Order was no longer awarded.

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• Friedrich von Beck-Rzikowsky
• Karl Samuel Grünhut{{Cite news |date=29 May 1908 |title=Here and There |volume=LII |page=7 |work=The Hebrew Standard |issue=21 |location=New York, N.Y. |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/hebstd/1908/05/29/01/article/15/?srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN--------------1 |via=Historical Jewish Press}}
• Sergei Witte
• Josef Jungmann
• Korvettenkapitän Georg Ludwig von Trapp. Father of the famous Von Trapp family that inspired the movie The Sound of Music. He was awarded the order for sinking 13 ships as a submarine commander in the Adriatic Sea during World War I.

• Nobility
• Order of chivalry
• Order of St. George (Habsburg-Lorraine)
• Order of the Iron Crown
• Orders, decorations, and medals of Austria-Hungary

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• Gustav Adolph Ackermann, Ordensbuch, Sämtlicher in Europa blühender und erloschener Orden und Ehrenzeichen. Annaberg, 1855
• Václav Měřička, Orden und Ehrenzeichen der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, Wien 1974

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090622025552/http://www.phalerae.org/Autriche/Leopold/index.html Ordre Impérial Autrichien de Léopold]
• [http://forum.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/p/197575#197575 Císařský rakouský řád Leopolda (1808)]
• [http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/leopold.htm The Imperial Austrian Order of Leopold 1914–1918]

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