diff --git a/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-kit.ts b/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-kit.ts
index 6697c6a1..824cd9c7 100644
--- a/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-kit.ts
+++ b/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-kit.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import { HardBreak } from '@tiptap/extension-hard-break'
 import { History } from '@tiptap/extension-history'
 import { HorizontalRule } from '@tiptap/extension-horizontal-rule'
 import { Italic } from '@tiptap/extension-italic'
-import { ListItem } from '@tiptap/extension-list-item'
 import { ListKeymap } from '@tiptap/extension-list-keymap'
 import { Paragraph } from '@tiptap/extension-paragraph'
 import { TableCell } from '@tiptap/extension-table-cell'
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ import { RichTextDocument } from './rich-text-document'
 import { RichTextHeading, RichTextHeadingOptions } from './rich-text-heading'
 import { RichTextImage } from './rich-text-image'
 import { RichTextLink } from './rich-text-link'
+import { RichTextListItem } from './rich-text-list-item'
 import { RichTextOrderedList } from './rich-text-ordered-list'
 import { RichTextStrikethrough } from './rich-text-strikethrough'
 import { RichTextTable } from './rich-text-table'
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ const RichTextKit = Extension.create<RichTextKitOptions>({
         }
 
         if (this.options.listItem !== false) {
-            extensions.push(ListItem.configure(this.options?.listItem))
+            extensions.push(RichTextListItem.configure(this.options?.listItem))
         }
 
         if (this.options.listKeymap !== false) {
diff --git a/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-list-item.test.ts b/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-list-item.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5900c80b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-list-item.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+import { Editor } from '@tiptap/core'
+
+import { RichTextKit } from './rich-text-kit'
+
+/**
+ * Creates a rich-text editor with the given initial content, and places the caret at the end of
+ * the first occurrence of the given text within the document.
+ *
+ * The `Code` extension is disabled because `prosemirror-codemark` (which it registers) loads a
+ * second CJS copy of `prosemirror-state` in the Vitest environment, crashing `Editor`
+ * instantiation with "Adding different instances of a keyed plugin"; it has no bearing on the
+ * list behavior under test.
+ */
+function createEditorWithCaretAfter(content: string, text: string): Editor {
+    const editor = new Editor({
+        extensions: [RichTextKit.configure({ code: false })],
+        content,
+    })
+
+    let caretPosition: number | null = null
+    editor.state.doc.descendants((node, position) => {
+        if (caretPosition === null && node.isText && node.text?.includes(text)) {
+            caretPosition = position + node.text.indexOf(text) + text.length
+        }
+    })
+
+    if (caretPosition === null) {
+        throw new Error(`Text "${text}" was not found in the document`)
+    }
+
+    editor.commands.setTextSelection(caretPosition)
+
+    return editor
+}
+
+/**
+ * Simulates a `Shift-Tab` key press through the editor's keymap handlers (the same code path a
+ * real key press takes, minus the DOM event plumbing).
+ */
+function pressShiftTab(editor: Editor): void {
+    const event = new KeyboardEvent('keydown', { key: 'Tab', shiftKey: true })
+    editor.view.someProp('handleKeyDown', (handleKeyDown) => handleKeyDown(editor.view, event))
+}
+
+describe('Extension: RichTextListItem', () => {
+    describe('when `Shift-Tab` lifts an item out of an ordered list', () => {
+        test('preserves the rendered marker of a single-item list as literal text', () => {
+            const editor = createEditorWithCaretAfter(
+                '<ol start="17"><li><p>Juli</p></li></ol>',
+                'Juli',
+            )
+
+            pressShiftTab(editor)
+
+            expect(editor.getHTML()).toBe('<p>17. Juli</p>')
+        })
+
+        test('preserves the marker of an explicitly decimal ordered list', () => {
+            const editor = createEditorWithCaretAfter(
+                '<ol start="17" type="1"><li><p>Juli</p></li></ol>',
+                'Juli',
+            )
+
+            pressShiftTab(editor)
+
+            expect(editor.getHTML()).toBe('<p>17. Juli</p>')
+        })
+
+        test('preserves the rendered marker matching the item position within the list', () => {
+            const editor = createEditorWithCaretAfter(
+                '<ol><li><p>one</p></li><li><p>two</p></li><li><p>three</p></li></ol>',
+                'two',
+            )
+
+            pressShiftTab(editor)
+
+            expect(editor.getHTML()).toBe(
+                '<ol><li><p>one</p></li></ol><p>2. two</p><ol><li><p>three</p></li></ol>',
+            )
+        })
+
+        test('inserts the marker into the first paragraph of a multi-paragraph item', () => {
+            const editor = createEditorWithCaretAfter(
+                '<ol start="17"><li><p>Juli</p><p>second paragraph</p></li></ol>',
+                'second paragraph',
+            )
+
+            pressShiftTab(editor)
+
+            expect(editor.getHTML()).toBe('<p>17. Juli</p><p>second paragraph</p>')
+        })
+    })
+
+    describe('when `Shift-Tab` does not lift the item out of a list', () => {
+        test('does not insert a marker when lifting an item out of a bullet list', () => {
+            const editor = createEditorWithCaretAfter('<ul><li><p>Juli</p></li></ul>', 'Juli')
+
+            pressShiftTab(editor)
+
+            expect(editor.getHTML()).toBe('<p>Juli</p>')
+        })
+
+        test('does not insert a marker when unindenting a nested ordered list item', () => {
+            const editor = createEditorWithCaretAfter(
+                '<ol><li><p>parent</p><ol><li><p>child</p></li></ol></li></ol>',
+                'child',
+            )
+
+            pressShiftTab(editor)
+
+            expect(editor.getHTML()).toBe('<ol><li><p>parent</p></li><li><p>child</p></li></ol>')
+        })
+    })
+})
diff --git a/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-list-item.ts b/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-list-item.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a34e8e41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/extensions/rich-text/rich-text-list-item.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+import { findParentNode } from '@tiptap/core'
+import { ListItem } from '@tiptap/extension-list-item'
+
+import type { Editor } from '@tiptap/core'
+
+/**
+ * Lifts the list item at the caret out of an ordered list while preserving the rendered list
+ * marker (e.g. `17.`) as literal text at the start of the lifted paragraph.
+ *
+ * This only applies when the lift would remove the item from the list altogether (i.e. the list
+ * is not nested within another list item), which is when the marker – rendered from the list's
+ * `start` attribute and the item's position – would otherwise be lost. The prime example is the
+ * automatic input rule for ordered lists swallowing a number the user meant as text (e.g. dates
+ * in German, like `17. Juli`), with `Shift-Tab` being the intuitive way to revert the conversion.
+ *
+ * @returns `true` if the marker-preserving lift was applied, `false` if the situation doesn't
+ * apply and the caller should fall back to the default behavior.
+ */
+function liftOutOfOrderedListPreservingMarker(
+    editor: Editor,
+    itemTypeName: string,
+    orderedListTypeName: string,
+): boolean {
+    const { selection } = editor.state
+
+    // Lifting a range of items merges them into a single item, making a single preserved marker
+    // ambiguous, so only handle a collapsed selection
+    if (!selection.empty) {
+        return false
+    }
+
+    const { $from } = selection
+
+    const item = findParentNode((node) => node.type.name === itemTypeName)(selection)
+
+    if (!item || item.depth < 2) {
+        return false
+    }
+
+    const list = $from.node(item.depth - 1)
+
+    if (list.type.name !== orderedListTypeName) {
+        return false
+    }
+
+    // When the list is nested within another list item, lifting only unindents the item into the
+    // parent list (it remains a list item, and no marker is lost)
+    if ($from.node(item.depth - 2).type.name === itemTypeName) {
+        return false
+    }
+
+    // Non-decimal markers (e.g. `<ol type="a">`) cannot be reconstructed as `<number>.` text
+    if (list.attrs.type && list.attrs.type !== '1') {
+        return false
+    }
+
+    if (!editor.can().liftListItem(itemTypeName)) {
+        return false
+    }
+
+    // The number the item is rendered with, given the list start and the item's position
+    const marker = `${Number(list.attrs.start ?? 1) + $from.index(item.depth - 1)}. `
+
+    // The position at the start of the item's first paragraph, where the marker text belongs
+    const markerPosition = item.start + 1
+
+    return editor
+        .chain()
+        .liftListItem(itemTypeName)
+        .command(({ tr }) => {
+            tr.insertText(marker, tr.mapping.map(markerPosition))
+            return true
+        })
+        .run()
+}
+
+/**
+ * Custom extension that extends the built-in `ListItem` extension to preserve the rendered list
+ * marker as literal text when `Shift-Tab` lifts an item out of an ordered list, making sure that
+ * a number the user typed themselves – swallowed into the list's `start` attribute by the
+ * automatic input rule – is never lost.
+ */
+const RichTextListItem = ListItem.extend({
+    addKeyboardShortcuts() {
+        return {
+            ...this.parent?.(),
+            'Shift-Tab': () => {
+                return (
+                    liftOutOfOrderedListPreservingMarker(
+                        this.editor,
+                        this.name,
+                        this.options.orderedListTypeName,
+                    ) || this.editor.commands.liftListItem(this.name)
+                )
+            },
+        }
+    },
+})
+
+export { RichTextListItem }