Dag Hammarskjöld Medal of Honor

The Dag Hammarskjöld Medal of Honor has been awarded by the German Society for the United Nations (DGVN) since 1977 . It is named after the former Secretary General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld . The DGVN honors personalities who have made “outstanding services in promoting the solution of world problems through the United Nations system”.

The award is not to be confused with the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal , which was created on July 22, 1997 by UN Resolution 1121 of the UN Security Council. This honors police officers, military personnel and civilians who have perished during a peacekeeping and peacekeeping operation of the United Nations.

Previous winners

• Raúl Prebisch (1977)
• Sadruddin Aga Khan and Egon Schwelb (1979)
• Henry R. Labouisse and Rüdiger von Wechmar (1981)
• Robert S. McNamara (1983)
• Liv Ullmann (1985)
• Brian Urquhart (1988)
• Gro Harlem Brundtland (1991)
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1995)
• Klaus Hüfner and Manfred Eisele (1998)
• Lakhdar Brahimi and school group "Aktion Völkerrecht" from Heidelberg (2004)
• Klaus Töpfer (2005)
• Kofi Annan (2009)
• Benjamin Ferencz and International Criminal Court (2013)
• Angela Kane and Staffan de Mistura (2016)
• Horst Koehler (2020)

Web links

The Dag Hammarskjöld Medal of Honor on the website of the German Society for the United Nations