The Karlspreis (engl.: Charlemagne Award) has been awarded once a year since 1950 by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea and European peace.
Past recipients of the award include
- 1950 Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi
- 1951 Hendrik Brugmans
- 1952 Alcide de Gasperi
- 1953 Jean Monnet
- 1954 Konrad Adenauer
- 1956 Sir Winston S. Churchill
- 1957 Paul Henri Spaak
- 1958 Robert Schuman
- 1959 George C. Marshall
- 1960 Joseph Bech
- 1961 Walter Hallstein
- 1963 Edward Heath
- 1964 Antonio Segni
- 1966 Jens Otto Krag
- 1967 Joseph Luns
- 1969 The European Commission
- 1970 François Seydoux de Clausonne
- 1972 Roy Jenkins
- 1973 Don Salvador de Madariaga
- 1976 Leo Tindemans
- 1977 Walter Scheel
- 1978 Konstantin Karamanlis
- 1979 Emilio Colombo
- 1981 Simone Veil
- 1982 King Juan Carlos I. of Spain
- 1984 Karl Carstens
- 1986 The People of Luxemburg
- 1987 Henry A. Kissinger
- 1988 François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl
- 1989 Frère Roger
- 1990 Gyula Horn
- 1991 Václav Havel
- 1992 Jacques Delors
- 1993 Felipe González Márquez
- 1994 Gro Harlem Brundtland
- 1995 Franz Vranitzky
- 1996 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- 1997 Roman Herzog
- 1998 Bronislaw Geremek
- 1999 Anthony (Tony) Charles Lynton Blair
- 2000 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
- 2001 György Konrád
- 2002 The Euro
- 2003 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- 2004 Pat Cox