Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and the European Anthem

 

  3 August 1955

Letter from Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi to Paul Levy proposing the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony as the European Anthem

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi's letter [French only]

 

  5 September 1955

Paul Levy's reply  to Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi

Paul Levy's letter [French only]

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and the European Parliamentary Union / Pan-European Union

Material in Central Archives

 

  1 August 1954

Letter from Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi to Léon Marchal (Secretary General) regarding the meeting to be held in Saarbrücken on 3 October 1954 (French only)

 

  16 September 1954

Letter from Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi to Paul Levy regarding the 6th Pan-European Congress to be held in Baden-Baden from 30 October to 1 November 1954 (French only)

 

   7 October 1954

Letter from Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi to Paul Levy regarding the 6th Pan-European Congress to be held in Baden-Baden from 30 October to 1 November 1954 (French only)

 

  15 October 1954

Copy of a letter from Paul Levy to Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi regarding the Congress in Baden-Baden (French only)

 

  22 October 1954

Copy of a letter from Paul Levy to Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (French only)

 

  14 December 1954

Letter from Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi to Hans Heinrich Solf (in German)

 

  23 December 1954

Copy of a letter from Hans Heinrich Solf to Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (in German)

Biographical Notes

 16 November 1894 Born in Tokyo to Austro-Hungarian father and Japanese mother

1919 Takes Czech nationality

1920 Attends the First Pan-European Congress in Berlin

1923 Publishes the "Pan-Europa" Manifesto

1924 Sets up the Pan-European Union

1939 Naturalised as French

Goes to America during the War where he meets Otto von Habsburg

Moves to Switzerland after the War

1947 Sets up the European Parliamentary Union

1948 Attends The Hague Congress: his idea of a European Assembly elected by national parliaments is accepted

1950 Begins corresponding with the Council of Europe about a European flag

18 May 1950 Receives the first Charlemagne prize

1955 Proposes the music (Beethoven's Ode to Joy) that later becomes the European Anthem

1965 Leaves the European Movement

1972 Dies in Schruns, Austria

Publications

  • "Los vom Materialismus"
  • "Revolution durch Technik"
  • "Praktischer Idealsimus", 1925
  • "Stalin & Co."
  • "Krise der Weltanschauung"
  • Editor of the magazine "Paneuropa"

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