page_title: Manfred Wörner
section_title: Manfred Wörner Medal
hierarchical_section_title: Manfred Wörner / Manfred Wörner Medal
caption_attribution_description: Elfie Wörner at the Manfred Wörner Monument in South Park, Sofia
context_page_description: Manfred Hermann Wörner was a German politician and diplomat. He served as the defense minister of West Germany between 1982 and 1988. He then served as the seventh Secretary General of NATO from 1988 to 1994. His term as Secretary General saw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification. Whilst serving in that position, he was diagnosed with cancer, but, in spite of his illness, continued serving until his final days.
context_section_description: Since 1996, the Ministry of Defense has awarded the Manfred Wörner Medal on an annual basis to honour public figures who have rendered "special meritorious service to peace and freedom in Europe".
  Since then it was given to:
  1996 Richard Holbrooke, US diplomat and Special Envoy in Bosnia and Kosovo
  1997 Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, publisher and initiator of the Munich Conference on Security Policy
  1998 Dr. Gerd Wagner (postmortem), for the implementation of the Dayton Agreement
  1999 Dr. Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Minister of Defense of Poland
  2000 Elizabeth Pond, American Journalist
  2001 Karsten Voigt, Coordinator at the German State Department for the German-American Cooperation
  2002 Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief and former Secretary General of NATO
  2003 Prof. Dr. Catherine McArdle Kelleher, U.S. Naval War College and former Head of the Aspen Institute Berlin
  2005 Hans Koschnick
  2006 Christian Schwarz-Schilling
  2007 Martti Ahtisaari
  2009 Jörg Schönbohm
  2011 Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz, German diplomat
caption: Dr. Wörner's wife Elfie at his monument in South Park, Sofia, Bulgaria
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