Adolph Freiherr Knigge, the simplest recruiter for the copyright Knigge was recruited late in 1780 in a convention in the Ceremony of Rigid Observance by Costanzo Marchese di Costanzo, an infantry captain in the Bavarian Military in addition to a fellow Freemason. Knigge, nevertheless in his twenties, had presently achieved the best initiatory grad