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THE SOVEREIGN ORDER BENE MERENTI
In this fast moving world it is increasingly difficult to help people properly, or to preserve our heritage for future generations.

The Order was established in 1932 under the name “Community Order BENE MERENTI.”

Due to the political and social disorder in the 30s the founders of the Princely House of Hohenzollern agreed to cancel the Order again, but Order Decorations were nevertheless conferred at Germany until the year 1941.

King Carol 2nd of Romania has recorded with Decree of December 16, 1935 the “Order BENE MERENTI” under the Royal Romanian Order. On March 8, 1940, the “Order BENE MERENTI” of the reign Romanian Royal Family was in the newly simultaneously instituted “Order of St. George`s” converted.

In 1950, His Highness Emanuel Joseph Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden gave the Order new, modern Statutes and decided by end of the 80s to establish the Grand Chancellery in the Republic of Austria. In 1998, the succession of the Order was governed by a Preamble.

The purpose of the “SOVEREIGN ORDER BENE MERENTI” is to support projects in the humanitarian and charitable field.