Karlspreis

The Karlspreis (engl.: Charlemagne Award) has been awarded once a year since 1950 by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea and European peace.

Past recipients of the award include

• 1950 Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi
• 1951 Hendrik Brugmans
• 1952 Alcide de Gasperi
• 1953 Jean Monnet
• 1954 Konrad Adenauer
• 1956 Sir Winston S. Churchill
• 1957 Paul Henri Spaak
• 1958 Robert Schuman
• 1959 George C. Marshall
• 1960 Joseph Bech
• 1961 Walter Hallstein
• 1963 Edward Heath
• 1964 Antonio Segni
• 1966 Jens Otto Krag
• 1967 Joseph Luns
• 1969 The European Commission
• 1970 François Seydoux de Clausonne
• 1972 Roy Jenkins
• 1973 Don Salvador de Madariaga
• 1976 Leo Tindemans
• 1977 Walter Scheel
• 1978 Konstantin Karamanlis
• 1979 Emilio Colombo
• 1981 Simone Veil
• 1982 King Juan Carlos I. of Spain
• 1984 Karl Carstens
• 1986 The People of Luxemburg
• 1987 Henry A. Kissinger
• 1988 François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl
• 1989 Frère Roger
• 1990 Gyula Horn
• 1991 Václav Havel
• 1992 Jacques Delors
• 1993 Felipe González Márquez
• 1994 Gro Harlem Brundtland
• 1995 Franz Vranitzky
• 1996 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
• 1997 Roman Herzog
• 1998 Bronislaw Geremek
• 1999 Anthony (Tony) Charles Lynton Blair
• 2000 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
• 2001 György Konrád
• 2002 The Euro
• 2003 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
• 2004 Pat Cox