Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher

  • Fame58.2
  • Momentum1.1
  • Austria rank#184
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  • Fame58.2
  • Momentum1.1
  • Austria rank#184
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Lived 1894–1972, aged 78Austria
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    57 languages
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  • Rank in Austria
    #184
    Politicians
  • Era
    1894–1972
    Aged 78
  • Awards
    7
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

He wrote the blueprint for a united Europe in 1923 and spent half a century turning it into a movement — founding the Paneuropean Union, proposing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" as its anthem, and pulling Einstein, Freud, and Thomas Mann into the fold before most governments thought integration was possible.

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Born in 1894 to an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and Mitsuko Aoyama, the daughter of a Tokyo landowner, he grew up between worlds — his childhood name was Eijiro Aoyama. He became a Czechoslovak citizen in 1919, then French in 1939. His 1923 book Pan-Europa included a membership form for a movement that held its first Congress three years later in Vienna; by 1927, French statesman Aristide Briand was its honorary president. He served as founding president of the Paneuropean Union for 49 years, proposed a Europe Day and postage stamp, and championed Beethoven's Ninth as the continent's anthem. In 1…

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Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
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The man of the future will be of . Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice.
"Praktischer Idealismus" (Practical Idealism), Wien/Leipzig 1925, pages 20, 23, 50
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
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Every great political happening began as a Utopia and ended as a Reality.
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Pan-Europa, Pan-Europa Verlag, Wien-Leipzig, 1924, page VII.
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
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Europe has become the battlefield of the earth. Its richest regions have been devastated, the flower of its population killed.
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Pan-Europa, Pan-Europa Verlag, Wien-Leipzig, 1924, page 26.
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
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There is still time to save Europe from this destiny.
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Pan-Europa, Pan-Europa Verlag, Wien-Leipzig, 1924, page 27.
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