Selection
Selection
[Last update: 18 March 2009]
Count Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi
|
Material in Central Archives
European Flag
File: 219 1
- Correspondence, 1950-1950
- Proposal for European flag
Kalergi's proposal comes first in the 1951 referundum (referendum results) but is rejected because of the cross
Selected documents
1950, 5 June |
|
1950, 27 July |
Coudenhove-Kalergi to Council of Europe on using the Red Cross of the United States of Europe |
1952, 27 March |
Levy to Coudenhove-Kalergi on Turkish opposition to a cross [fr] |
1952, 15 April |
Coudenhove-Kalergi's reply to Levy, proposing cross with crescent added [fr] |
1954, 15 December |
New proposal from Coudenhove-Kalergi to S. Stephanopoulos, chair of the Committee of Ministers [fr] |
1955, Kalergi proposes the Beethoven theme tha is finally adopted
Documents
1955, 3 August |
Letter from Coudenhove-Kalergi proposing Ode to Joy as the European Anthem [fr] |
1955, 5 September |
Reply to Kalergi [fr] |
European Parliamentary Union/ Pan European Union
file 240 33
- correspondence 1949-1954
- documents 1947-1954
date |
name |
language |
type |
subject |
1.8.1954 |
Kalergi to Marchal (Secretary General) |
French |
letter |
Sarrebruck meeting, 3.10.1954 |
16.9.1954 |
Kalergi to Paul Levy |
French |
letter |
6th Paneuropean Congress,
|
7.10.1954 |
Kalergi to Paul LEvy |
French |
letter |
Baden-Baden Congress |
15.10.1954 |
(copy) Paul Levy to Kalergi |
French |
letter |
Baden-Baden Congress |
22.10.1954 |
(copy) Paul Levy to Kalergi |
French |
letter |
|
14.12.1954 |
Kalergi to Hans Heinrich Solf |
German |
letter |
|
[23.12.1954] |
(copy) letter H.H.Solf to Kalergi |
German |
letter |
Biographical notes
- 1984, 17 November: born in Tokyo to Austro-Hungarian father and Japanese mother
- 1919: takes Czechoslovak nationality
- 1920: attends the First Paneuropean Congress in Berlin
- 1923: publishes the manifesto "Pan Europa"
- 1924 (1923?): sets up the Paneuropean Union
- 1939: is naturalised French
- Goes to America during the War where he meets Otto von Habsburg
- Goes to live in Switzerland after the War
- 1947: Sets up the European Parliamentary Union
- 1948: Attends Congress of The Hague: his idea of a European Assembly elected by national parliaments is accepted
- 1950: begins corresponding with Council of Europe about a European flag
- 1950, 18 May: receives the first Charlemagne prize
- 1955: proposes the Beethoven music that later becomes the European anthem
- 1965: leaves the European Movement
- 1972: dies at Schruns, Austria
Publications
- "Los vom Materialismus"
- "Revolution durch Technik"
- "Praktischer Idealsimus", 1925
- "Stalin & Co."
- "Krise der Weltanschauung"
- editor of the magazine "Paneuropa"
Links
- Paneuropean Union homepage
- European Movement archives at the Florence University Institute
