Distinguished Guests On The Petersberg
- 1938: Neville Chamberlain, British Premier, during the Sudetenland crisis. He was the first official foreign dignitary on the Petersberg
- 1954: Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1955: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, (Shah of Persia, with his wife Soraya)
- 1960: King Rama IX of Thailand
- 1965: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- 1967: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with his wife Farah Diba
- 1973: Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (following his special wish, the Hotel was reopened for several days for his visit. During this time he wrecked a Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC, the Federal Republic's gift to him, on his first drive down the mountain)
- After the German reunification in 1990
- 1990: Nicephore Soglo (Premier of Benin)
- 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, with his wife Raisa
- 1990: Nelson Mandela
- 1991: Boris Yeltsin
- 1992: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- 1993: Yasser Arafat
- 1993: Emperor Akihito of Japan
- 1994: U.S. president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary
- 1994: Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
- 1998: King Hussein of Jordan
- 2004: Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt
Read more about this topic: Hotel Petersberg
Famous quotes containing the word guests:
“When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,
She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.
An abstemious man would reel at her look,
As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.”
—William Plomer (1903–1973)