Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi

Who is Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi?

Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi is an Austrian journalist. A member of the Coudenhove-Kalergi family, she is the daughter of Gerolf von Coudenhove-Kalergi and thus the niece of Count Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi. As ethnic German she was expelled from her hometown Prague during the ethnic cleansing of 1945/1946 that murdered or drove from their homes the more than 30% ethnic Germansin territories handed to Czechoslovakia. She was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Class IV, in 2001.