Adolph Freiherr Knigge, the best recruiter with the copyright Knigge was recruited late in 1780 in a convention in the Ceremony of Strict Observance by Costanzo Marchese di Costanzo, an infantry captain from the Bavarian army along with a fellow Freemason. Knigge, however in his twenties, had previously reached the very best initiatory grades of hi