Katharine Weißgerber for her courage and their commitment during the Battle of Spichern on the Spicher Heights (6 August 1870) was awarded in Saarbrücken the Cross of Merit for women and virgins.

Schultz had been in the Lützow Freikorps in the liberation wars, then served as a sergeant in the 9th Hussar regiment in Saarbrücken.

Katharine Weißgerber brought an injured person to safety and sought a priest for the dying in a hail of bullets.

After her death a call for donations allowed the setting of a proper burial, now part of the German-French Garden in Saarbrücken.

Her tombstone bears the inscription:Dem heldenmütigen Mädchen zum ehrenden Gedächtnis gewidmet von ihren Mitbürgern[3] There is a plaque on her birthplace, which had to be demolished because of dilapidation in the meantime.