Manfred Wörner Medal
The Manfred Wörner Medal has been awarded annually since 1996 by the Federal Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany to personalities who “have made a special contribution to peace and freedom in Europe”.
The medal was donated in memory of the former Defense Minister and NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner , who died on August 13, 1994 .
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- 1996: Richard Holbrooke , US diplomat and special envoy in the Bosnia and Kosovo conflict
- Holbrooke was honored on January 16, 1997 by Secretary of Defense Volker Rühe . During his time as US ambassador to Germany, he had rendered outstanding services to German-American friendship. As a peace broker in Dayton, he also made a decisive contribution to ending the war in the former Yugoslavia and moving the peace process forward. The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris on December 14, 1995.
- 1997: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin , publisher and initiator of the military knowledge conference in Munich
- 1998: Gerd Wagner , Ambassador , Deputy High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo , posthumously (Wagner (born May 19, 1942 - September 17, 1997) died in a helicopter crash during his Bosnia mission)
- 1999: Janusz Onyszkiewicz , Polish Minister of Defense
- 2000: Elizabeth Pond , American journalist
- 2001: Karsten Voigt , coordinator for German-American cooperation in the Federal Foreign Office
- 2002: Javier Solana , Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union and former NATO Secretary General
- 2003: Catherine McArdle Kelleher , US Naval War College, former director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin .
- 2005: Hans Koschnick , EU administrator from 1994 to 1996 for the Bosnian city of Mostar
- 2006: Christian Schwarz-Schilling , High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2007: Martti Ahtisaari , Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Kosovo
- 2009: Jörg Schönbohm , former Bundeswehr general, CDU politician
- 2010: Horst Teltschik , former Vice-Chancellery and from 1999 to 2008 organizer of the Munich Security Conference
- 2011: Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz , from 1989 to 1993 German NATO ambassador and permanent representative in the NATO Council
- 2012: Klaus Naumann , former Bundeswehr Inspector General and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
- 2014: Lothar Rühl , political scientist, journalist and State Secretary a. D. in the Federal Ministry of Defense
- 2015: Wolfgang Ischinger , lawyer, international lawyer and diplomat, chairman of the Munich Security Conference
- 2016: Helga Schmid , German diplomat, General Secretary of the European External Action Service