The Order of Merit has been bestowed on Ms Wiedemann amongst other things for her entrepreneurial activities and her intensive and long-standing voluntary commitments. Ms Wiedemann takes her obligations towards the company very seriously, but also and to a great extent her obligations towards the general public with regard to social and cultural areas of life and on a municipal-political level.
The Bayerische Verdienstorden has been awarded since 1957. The number of award holders living is limited to 2000; in total there are currently 1,637.