George C. Marshall

1959

The text of the medal presented reads:

Stadt Aachen
George C. Marshall
für Verdienst um Wiederaufbau und Einigung Europas

George C. Marshall konnte den Preis nicht in Aachen entgegennehmen. Stellvertretend für ihn nahm seine Frau Catherine die Auszeichnung - Karlspreisurkunde und eine Sonderausführung als Plakette - am 4. Mai 1959 in einem Washingtoner Krankenhaus entgegen.

Vita

1880

Geboren in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA

Training as an officer and military career

1939-1945

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff

US Secretary of State

1947-1949

1947

Development of the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction aid

Involvement in the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

1949

1950

Appointment as Secretary of Defense (Korean War)

retreat into one's private life

1951

1953

Nobel Peace Prize winner

deceased

1959

Text of the Certificate of Honour

The International Charlemagne Prize was awarded to General George C. Marshall, the former US Secretary of State and Secretary of Defence, for his outstanding services to the economic reconstruction of Europe through the Marshall Plan, the strengthening of the idea of unification and the will of the peoples of Western Europe to preserve themselves. This certificate was issued on the basis of the unanimous decision of the Board of Directors of the International Charlemagne Prize on 29 October 1958.