List of honors and awards received by Helmut Kohl

Kohl receiving the Coudenhove-Kalergi-Preis in April 1991.

The Charlemagne Prize certificate and medal awarded to François Mitterrand and Kohl in 1988.

The following is a list of accolades and honors conferred upon the sixth chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Helmut Kohl.

Honorary degrees and citizenships

Honorary doctorates (selection)^[1]

Year	Institution
1990	Tel Aviv University
	University of Maryland
	John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
	Harvard University
1991	University of Salamanca
	University of Edinburgh
	University of Chile
1993	Istanbul University
	Sophia University, Tokyo
	Sofia University
1995	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Philosophy
1996	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
	Ateneo de Manila University
	Keio University, Tokyo
1998	Brandeis University, Faculty of Law
	University of Cambridge
1999	University of Liège
2000	University of Wrocław, Faculty of Theology
	University of Groningen

Honorary citizenships^[2]

Year	Institution
1985	St. Gilgen
1992	Berlin1
1998	London
	Honorary Citizen of Europe2
1999	Frankfurt am Main
2005	Ludwigshafen
2010	Gdańsk

^1 – Given on 9 November 1992, the third anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to Kohl, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.^[2]
^2 – Received on 11 December 1998 at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna. The only other honorary citizenship of Europe was given to Jean Monnet in 1976.^[2][3]

Accolades

Year	Accolade	Institution	Note
1977	Order of Merit of the Italian Republic[4]	President of Italy
1988	Charlemagne Prize[5]	City of Aachen, Society for the Conferring of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen	For "distinguished service on behalf of European unification", joint recipient with François Mitterrand.
1990	Coudenhove-Kalergi-Europapreis[6]	European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi
1991	Europe Price for Statesmanship[4]	Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S.
1993	Deutscher Medienpreis (de)[7]	Media Control (de)	Laudation by Jens Feddersen (de).
1994	Bavarian Order of Merit[4]	Minister-President of Bavaria	Laudation by Edmund Stoiber.
	Konrad-Adenauer-Freiheitspreis[4]	Germany Foundation	For life achievement towards freedom, peace and unity. Laudation by Otto von Habsburg.
1995	Concord-Preis[4]	City of Krefeld	For merit towards a German-American partnership.
1996	Presidential Gold Medal[4]	B'nai B'rith	Laudation by Shimon Peres.
	European of the Year[4]	La Vie	Laudation by Jacques Delors.
	Order of Ouissam Alaouite[4]	King of Morocco	Received from Hassan II of Morocco.
	Eric M. Warburg Award[8]	Atlantik-Brücke	Laudation by George H. W. Bush.[4]
	Honorary membership[4]	Society of Indonesian Engineers
	Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation[9]	Prince of Asturias Foundation	Received from Felipe VI of Spain, then Prince of Asturias.
1997	Leo-Baeck-Preis[10]	Central Council of Jews in Germany	Laudation by George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld.[4]
	The George C. Marshall Foundation Award[11]	George C. Marshall Foundation	Received from Madeleine Albright at a Gala Dinner celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Marshall Plan Speech in Washington, D.C.[12]
	Europäischer St.-Ulrichs-Preis (de)[13]	Europäische St.-Ulrichs-Stiftung, Dillingen an der Donau	Laudation by Theo Waigel.[4]
	Vision for Europe Award[4]	Edmond Israel Foundation	For "tireless commitment in the interest of European integration".
1998	Order of the White Eagle[4]	President of Poland	Received from Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
	Grand Cross in Special Design of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany[14]	President of Germany	Only the second - after Konrad Adenauer - to receive this honour. Received from Roman Herzog.
1999	Order of the Netherlands Lion[4]	Kingdom of the Netherlands	Recognised as "Chancellor of Europe", received from Wim Kok.
	Order of Leopold[4]	Kingdom of Belgium	Received from Jean-Luc Dehaene.
	Presidential Medal of Freedom[15]	President of the United States of America	Received from Bill Clinton.
	Statesman of the Decade[16]	EastWest Institute	Laudation by Henry Kissinger. Ceremony attended by George H. W. Bush and Kofi Annan.
	Goldene Henne (de)[17]	Superillu, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
	St.-Liborius-Medaille für Einheit und Frieden (de)[18]	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paderborn
	Olympic Order[19][20]	International Olympic Committee
2000	Millennium Medal[4]	Government of Hungary	Received from Victor Orban.
	Preis des Westfälischen Friedens (de)[21]	Wirtschaftliche Gesellschaft für Westfalen und Lippe e. V.
2001	Elsie-Kühn-Leitz-Preis (de)[22]	Vereinigung Deutsch-Französischer Gesellschaften für Europa (de)	For "an active contribution towards German-French relations".
2003	Order of Merit[4]	Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
2004	International Adalbert Prize[23]	Adalbert-Stiftung (de)	Laudation by Władysław Bartoszewski.
	Alcide de Gasperi Prize[4]		Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Alcide de Gasperi.
2005	Global Leadership Award[24]	Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
	Point-Alpha-Preis (de)[25]	Kuratorium Deutsche Einheit e.V.	First recipient, joint with George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev.
	Franz Josef Strauß-Preis (de)[26]	Hanns Seidel Foundation	Laudation by Theo Waigel.
	Quadriga[27]	Verein Werkstatt Deutschland	Laudation by Mikhail Gorbachev.
2006	Special award of the Konrad Adenauer Prize for Municipal Politics[28]	Kommunalpolitische Vereinigung der CDU und CSU Deutschlands	Laudation by Roland Koch.[4]
	Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana[29]	President of Estonia	Received from Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.
	Carlos V. European Award[30][31]	European Academy of Yuste Foundation	Received from Juan Carlos I of Spain.
	Honorary membership[4]	Alfred-Delp-Gesellschaft	For "promoting the remembrance of the military resistance" in National Socialism.
2007	Médaille d'or[32]	Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe	Received from Micheline Calmy-Rey.
	Prize for Understanding and Tolerance[33]	Jewish Museum, Berlin	Laudation by Salomon Korn, Vice-President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
2009	BILD Osgar (de)[34]	Media Prize of Bild	Joint recipient with George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev.
	Distinguished Leadership Award[35]	Atlantic Council	Joint recipient with George H. W. Bush.
	Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize[36]	Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation	Laudation by Jean-Claude Juncker.
	Millennium Bambi Award[37]	Hubert Burda Media
2010	Roland Berger Preis für Menschenwürde (de)[38]	Roland Berger Stiftung (de)
	Grand Order of Queen Jelena[4]	Republic of Croatia	Received in Ludwigshafen.
2011	Henry A. Kissinger Prize[39]	/ American Academy in Berlin	Laudations by Bill Clinton and Robert B. Zoellick. Remarks by Angela Merkel and Philip D. Murphy.
	Special Prize "Golden Bridge of Dialogue 2010"[40]	/ Haus der Deutsch-Polnischen Zusammenarbeit (de)	For "extraordinary merit toward German-Polish reconciliation".
	Pfälzer Löwe[41]	Bezirksverband Pfalz (de)	Laudation by Philipp Mißfelder.

Namesakes

• In 1995, the Institute of European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, founded in 1991, was renamed Helmut Kohl Institute in his honor.^[42][43]
• Two streets in Germany bear his name, the Doktor-Helmut-Kohl-Straße in Loddin on Usedom and the Helmut-Kohl-Weg between the German city of Eppenbrunn and the French town of Roppeviller.^[43]

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