page_title: Árpád Göncz
section_title: Awards and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Árpád Göncz / Awards and honours
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Göncz Árpád dedikál a Berzsenyi Dániel Gimnáziumban
context_page_description: Árpád Göncz was a Hungarian writer, translator, agronomist and liberal politician, who served as President of Hungary from 2 May 1990 to 4 August 2000. Göncz played a role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, for which he was imprisoned for six years. After his release, he worked as a translator of English-language literary works.
  He was also a founding member of the Alliance of Free Democrats and Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary before becoming President. He was Hungary's first freely elected head of state, as well as the first in 42 years who was not a Communist or a fellow traveler.
  He was a member of the international advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
context_section_description: 1991:  Italy – Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  1991:  United Kingdom – Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
  1994:  Poland – Order of the White Eagle
  1995:  Malta – Honorary Companion of Honour with Collar of the National Order of Merit (9 February 1995)
  1999:  Estonia – Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana
  1999:  Lithuania – Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (19 May 1999)
  1999:  Norway – Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav
  1999:  United Kingdom – Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
  2000:  Germany – Special Class of the Grand Cross of the Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  2000:  Slovakia – Grand Cross (or 1st Class) of the Order of the White Double Cross (2000)
  2003:  Czech Republic – Order of the White Lion (7 March 2003)
  2003: Award of the Budapest Corvinus Europe Institute
  2009: International Adalbert Prize for Peace, Freedom and Cooperation in Europe of Adalbert Foundation Krefeld
caption: Árpád Göncz in 2004
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