Internationaler Karlspreis zu Aachen

Created in 1949, and first awarded in 1950, the Charlemagne Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes in Europe. It compensates public personalities for their contribution in the service of West European understanding and common endeavour, and in the service of humanity and world peace. The prize was conceived by citizens of the German city of Aachen. Named after Charlemagne, it highlights that Aachen was once the political center of Europe, from where Charlemagne attempted the unification of the continent. Charlemagne is burried in the Aachen cathedral.

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1. 1950 : Richard Nikolaus, Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972)
2. 1951 : Hendrik Brugmans
3. 1952 : Alcide de Gasperi
4. 1953 : Jean Monnet
5. 1954 : Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)
6. 1956 : Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
7. 1957 : Paul Henri Spaak (1899-1972)
8. 1958 : Robert Schuman (1886-1963)
9. 1959 : George C. Marshall (1880-1959)
10. 1960 : Joseph Bech
11. 1961 : Walter Hallstein
12. 1963 : Edward Heath (1916-2005)
13. 1964 : Antonio Segni
14. 1966 : Jens Otto Krag
15. 1967 : Joseph Luns
16. 1969 : The European Commission
17. 1970 : François Seydoux de Clausonne
18. 1972 : Roy Jenkins
19. 1973 : Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo (1886-1978)
20. 1976 : Leo Tindemans
21. 1977 : Walter Scheel
22. 1978 : Konstantinos Karamanlis
23. 1979 : Emilio Colombo
24. 1981 : Simone Veil
25. 1982 : Juan Carlos I, rey de España (1938- )
26. 1984 : Karl Carstens
27. 1986 : The People of Luxembourg
28. 1987 : Henry Kissinger
29. 1988 : François Mitterrand (1916-1996) and Helmut Kohl (1930- )
30. 1989 : Frère Roger (of the Taizé Community)
31. 1990 : Gyula Horn
32. 1991 : Václav Havel
33. 1992 : Jacques Delors
34. 1993 : Felipe González
35. 1994 : Gro Harlem Brundtland
36. 1995 : Franz Vranitzky
37. 1996 : Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
38. 1997 : Roman Herzog
39. 1998 : Bronislaw Geremek
40. 1999 : Tony Blair (1953- )
41. 2000 : Bill Clinton (1946- )
42. 2001 : György Konrád
43. 2002 : The Euro
44. 2003 : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926- )
45. 2004 : Pat Cox
46. 2004 : Pope John Paul II (extraordinary prize) (1920-2005)
47. 2005 : Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
48. 2006 : Jean-Claude Juncker
49. 2007 : Javier Solana (1942- )
50. 2008 : Angela Merkel (1954- )
51. 2009 : Andrea Riccardi
52. 2010 : Donald Tusk (1957-)
53. 2011 : Jean-Claude Trichet
54. 2012 : Wolfgang Schäuble
55. 2013 : Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956- )
56. 2014 : Herman Van Rompuy (1947-)
57. 2015 : Martin Schultz
58. 2016 : Pope Francis (1936-)