Honours
- During his lifetime Walter Hallstein received honorary doctorates from nine European and nine American universities, including the universities of Hamburg, Padua, Columbia, Georgetown, and Harvard.
- In 1953 he was awarded the Grand Cross (Grand Merit Cross with Star and Sash) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- In 1953 he was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
- In 1955 he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria.
- In 1955 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon .
- In 1961 he was awarded the Charlemagne prize (Karlspreis) by the City of Aachen for his efforts in the cause of European federation.
- In 1964 he was made an honorary member of the American Society of International Law.
- In 1969 he was awarded the Robert Schuman Prize
- In 1971 he was made an honorary citizen of Brussels, the first German since the War to receive such an honour.
- The 1995–1996 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.
- In 1997, the Walter Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin was named in his honour.
From 2002 to 2008, the Walter Hallstein Prize was awarded annually in November by the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, the town of Frankfurt am Main and the Dresdner Bank for special services to European integration.
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