Pro Merito

Knights Templar is the principal of Pro Merito medal reward, which can be imparted to the person who made themselves particularly well served by the Order's attention and appreciation. Draft medalist can be sent to the Board of reward medal Pro Merito.

The medal is oval and made of silver in the 8th size. It shows on the obverse the Knights Cross, at the edge of a stylized stock, and on the smooth side "PRO MERITO" medal number, recipient's name and the year of the fief.

Proposals to worthy recipients come mainly from the Order's knights.

Pro Merito Medal Committee 2017-2018

Chairman Jonas Montgomery, K.G.C.T.J.
Member Antti Juntunen, K.C.T.J.
Member Bjørn Aksel Sund, K.G.O.T.J.
Member Mats Lekman, K.G.C.T.J.
Member Hans Levin Hansen, K.G.C.T.J.

Pro Merito has been awarded

2025	Anders Moqvist On one occasion in 2010, Anders happened to be on the same bus as a knife-wielding woman who had just before senselessly murdered two men. She was on her way to murder a third person, her mother. There were terrified children and adults on the bus and it was very tense when she walked around with the large, bloody knife and talked about murder. No one could escape her in the cramped bus. Anders calmly and clearly managed to get her to put the bloody knife down in a bag after he had stood for a while talking to her with the knife pointed at his stomach. It was an extremely dangerous situation. The driver had parked the bus at the Norremark roundabout in Växjö and called the police. After a while, Anders was able to calmly hand the woman over to the police without further violence being used.
2018	Marikka Purola On April 26, 2017, a train accident occurred in Leksvall. A military vehicle collided with a railcar. In the accident four people died, four were seriously injured and seven people were injured in a minor manner. Marikka Purola lives near the scene of the accident and went straight to the site. It was bad weather and it was clear that the rescue helicopter could not fly. Marikka started the rescue work before the ambulance arrived and she was urged by chief physician Peter Braskén to stay at the scene of the accident and, if necessary, medicate and provide medical emergency assistance to injured persons. Without her efforts at the scene, more of the victims probably had died. Read the newspaper article in Western Uusimaa about Marikka Purola
2015	Stian Brænden A three year old boy had climbed down the track at Moelv station, Stian make the courageous decision to jump onto the tracks while a train is entering the station. Stian get the boy and throws him up at the station and shortly after Stian myself get up in perongen will train into the station. Stians intervention shows the very great courage. Read nrk.no about Stian Brænden
2014	Dennis Silfvast Twenty-two-year-old Dennis Silfvast was awarded Pro Merito because he saved the life of his mother in a fierce fire. That he himself survived can be described as a miracle. Dennis lives with constant pain and nightmares. Dennis intervention shows great courage, resourcefulness and courage.
2013	Christian Hansen Gow Christian Gow HansenFör quickly intervened associated with cardiac arrest of an elderly man on the train to Lyngby. Christian Gow Hansen started cardiac massage and thereby saved the man's life.
2010	Anna Theresa Nordlund For the life-saving efforts in the boil in augusit 2005. Read more about Anna Theresa Nordlund
2005	Erik Liungman For his personal humanitarian emergency, on Phi Phi Island, Thailand in conjunction with the major tsunami in 2004, where he was shown great courage, resourcefulness and leadership well beyond what would normally be expected of a fellow human being in such a chaotic situation. Read Aftonbladets article about Erik
2003	Petter Skauen Aid Worker Petter Skauen conferred Pro Merito for his many years of work for Kirkens Nødhjelp primarily in Guatemala, where he spent twenty years. He played a central role in establishing the peace agreement between the guerrillas and the authorities after 36 years of war.
2001	Jörgen Öberg Major Jörgen Öberg was conferred Pro Merito to during their service in the United Nations as an observer proved extraordinarily great personal courage and responsibility in a hostage situation in Georgia in 1999.
1999	Ulrika Nilsson Assistant Ulrika Nilsson received the Pro Merito for her through a quick, resolute and courageous intervention rescued thirteen elderly from being burnt alive in a retirement home in southern Sweden.
1998	Rolf Ekéus Ambassador Rolf Ekeus conferred Pro Merito that he as head of UNSCOM in Iraq 1991-1998 showed great personal courage and iniative when it came to identifying the existence of mass destruction weapons consent.
1997	Daniel Müller and Kasper Pettersson Both conscripts in the regiment KA3. At a traffic acciident in Gotland saved them the life of a comrade by a resourceful intervention under extraordinarily dramatic circumstances. Read more here!