Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Died 1972-07-27.
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Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi, was a politician, philosopher, and count of Coudenhove-Kalergi. A pioneer of European integration, he served as the founding president of the Paneuropean Union for 49 years. His parents were Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, and Mitsuko Aoyama, the daughter of an oil merchant, antiques-dealer and major landowner in…
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culture · Politician and philosopher (1894–1972) · politician · writer · philosopher · also Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count Richard Nicolas Coudenhove-Kalergi, Coudenhove-Kalergi
Born 16 November 1894 · Died 27 July 1972 · Q78525
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1972· 1 entry
1967· 1 entry
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Coudenhove-Kalergi was awarded the Kajima Peace Award, and was invited to Japan by Morinosuke Kajima as the president of Kajima Institute of International Peace, Yoshinori Maeda as the president of NHK, and Kaoru Hatoyam
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1965· 1 entry
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Awarded Sonning Prize (1965).
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1955· 1 entry
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Proposed the Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" as the music for the European Anthem, a suggestion that the Council of Europe took up 16 years later
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1953· 2 entries
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In Switzerland, and Crown Princess Michiko
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Ichirō Hatoyama established Yuai Youth Association (later Yuai Association), the fraternal association as the successor of fraternity that Coudenhove-Kalergi mentioned in The Totalitarian State Against Man
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1950· 2 entries
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Awarded Charlemagne Prize (1950).
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Received the first annual Karlspreis (Charlemagne Award), given by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea and European peace
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1945· 1 entry
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Taught at the New York University, which appointed him professor of history in 1944
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1940· 1 entry
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Escaped to the United States by way of Switzerland and Portugal
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1938· 2 entries
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A Nazi propaganda book, Die Freimaurerei: Weltanschauung, Organisation und Politik (Freemasonry: Its World View, Organization and Policies), was released in German, which targeted Coudenhove-Kalergi's membership of Freem
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Coudenhove-Kalergi fled to Czechoslovakia, and thence to France
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1933· 1 entry
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Responded to the ascendance of Nazism by collaborating with Heinrich Mann, Arthur Holitscher, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Max Brod in writing and publishing the pamphlet Gegen die Phrase vom jüdischen Schädling ("Against t
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1932· 1 entry
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Coudenhove-Kalergi composed, and had his publishing house reissue, a preface for a new edition of his father Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi's condemnation of antisemitism in his later life
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1930· 2 entries
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Proposed a Europe Day in May and in 1932 he proposed to celebrate every 17 May, the anniversary of Aristide Briand's "Memorandum" being published in 1930
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Kajima retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become MP
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1929· 1 entry
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Which he later proposed in 1955 as Anthem for the European Union
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1928· 1 entry
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Hitler wrote about his political opponent in his Zweites Buch, describing him as "Allerweltsbastard (commonplace bastard) Coudenhove"
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1927· 1 entry
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Aristide Briand was elected honorary president of the Pan-Europa movement
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1926· 3 entries
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Expressed the support of Jews by the pan-European movement and the benefits to Jews with the elimination of racial hatred and economic rivalry brought by the United States of Europe
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To avoid the criticism that occurred at that time of the relationship between the Pan-European movement and Freemasonry
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The first Congress of the Pan-European Union was held in Vienna and the 2,000 delegates elected Coudenhove-Kalergi as president of the Central Council, a position he held until his death in 1972
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1924· 1 entry
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“Every great political happening began as a Utopia and ended as a Reality.”
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1923· 2 entries
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And contained a membership form for the Pan-Europa movement, which held its first Congress in 1926 in Vienna
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Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Published a manifesto entitled Pan-Europa, each copy containing a membership form which invited the reader to become a member of the Pan-Europa movement
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1922· 1 entry
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Co-founded the Pan-European Union (PEU), as "the only way of guarding against an eventual world hegemony by Russia
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1919· 1 entry
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And then took French citizenship from 1939 until his death
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1894· 1 entry
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Born 1894-11-16.
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1859· 1 entry
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Coudenhove-Kalergi was the second son of Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1859–1906), an Austro-Hungarian count and diplomat.
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