Selected Honors
In 1973, Bahr was awarded the ‘’Bundesverdienstkreuz’’ (“Federal Cross of Merit”). He named an honorary citizen of Berlin in 2002. Bahr was honored in 2007 with the Willy Brandt Prize by the German-Norwegian Willy-Brandt-Foundation and in 2008 with both the Göttingen Peace Prize and the Marion Dönhoff Preis. Bahr also received an honorary doctorate in 2008 from the Internationale Hochschulinstitut Zittau in recognition of his service to the process of unifying Europe. In January 2010, he receied the Order of Merit (‘’Verdienstorden’’) of North Rhine-Westphalia
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