1950 Richard Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi
Founder of the Pan-European Movement (*1894-1972)
1951 Prof. Dr. Hendrik Brugmans
Rector of the European College in Bruges (*1906-1997)
1952 Alcide de Gasperi
Italian Prime Minister (*1881-1954)
1953 Jean Monnet
President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (*1888-1979)
1954 Dr. Konrad Adenauer
Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (*1876-1967)
1955 Sir Winston Churchill
former Prime Minister of Great Britain (*1874-1965)
1957 Paul Henri Spaak
Secretary-General of NATO (*1889-1972)
1958 Robert Schuman
President of the European Parliament (*1886-1963)
1959 George C. Marshall
former US Secretary of State (*1880-1959)
1960 Dr. Josef Bech
Honorary State Minister, President of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies (*1887-1975)
1961 Prof. Dr. Walter Hallstein
President of the Commission of the European Economic Community (*1901-1982)
1963 The Rt. Hon. Edward Heath
M.B.E., M.P. British Lord Privy Seal (*1916-2005)
1964 Prof. Dr. Antonio Segni
President of the Republic of Italy (*1891-1972)
1966 Jens Otto Krag
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark (*1914 -1978)
1967 Joseph Luns
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (*1911-2001)
1969 Jean Rey
President of The Commission of the European Communities (*1902-1983)
1970 Francois Seydoux de Clausonne
former French Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany (*1905-1981)
1972 The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins P.C., M.P.
politician (*1920)
1973 Don Salvador de Madariaga
philosopher, sociologist, historian (*1886-1978)
1976 Leo Tindemans
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium (*1922)
1977 Walter Scheel
Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (*1919)
1978 Konstantin Karamanlis
Prime Minister of the Republic of Greece (*1907)
1979 Emilio Colombo
President of the European Parliament (*1920)
1981 Simone Veil
President of the European Parliament (*1927)
1982 H.M. King Juan Carlos I of Spain (*1938)
1984 Prof. Dr. Karl Carstens
Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (*1914-1992)
1986 The People of Luxembourg
1987 Prof. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
former Secretary of State of the United States of America (*1923)
1988 Francois Mitterrand
President of the French Republic (*1916-1996)
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Dr. Helmut Kohl
Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (*1930)
1989 Frère Roger
founder of the Communauté of Taizé (*1915-2005)
1990 Dr. Gyula Horn
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary (*1932)
1991 Václav Havel
President of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (*1936)
1992 Jacques Delors
President of the Commission of the European Communities (*1925)
1993 Felipe González Márquez
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain (*1942)
1994 Gro Harlem Brundtland
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway (*1939)
1995 Dr. Franz Vranitzky
Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (*1937)
1996 H.M. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (*1938)
1997 Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog
Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (*1934)
1998 Prof. Dr. Bronislaw Geremek
Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland (*1932)
1999 Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (*1953)
2000 William Jefferson Clinton
President of the United States of America (*1946)
2001 György Konrád
President of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, writer and sociologist (*1933)
2002 The Euro
2003 Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
President of the European Convent (*1926)
Extraordinary Charlemagne Prize of Aachen
2004 His Holiness Pope John Paul II. (*1920-2005)
2004 Pat Cox
President of the European Parliament (*1952)
2005 Dr. Dr. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
President of the Republic of Italy (*1920)
2006 Dr. Jean-Claude Juncker
Prime Minister of Luxembourg (*1954)
2007 Dr. Javier Solana de Madariaga
High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy,
Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union (*1942)
2008 Dr. Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (*1954)
2009 Dr. Andrea Riccardi
Founder of the Community of Sant' Egidio (*1950)
