Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 12. Jahrgang Heft 2/2022, pp. 195-209, 2022/11/04
Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove‐Kalergi was the founder of the Pan‐European Movement in the interwar period. The movement’s aim was the unification of European states to achieve peace. After World War I, Coudenhove became a citizen of the newly founded Czechoslovakia. Unsurprisingly, he attributed an important role to his new fatherland within Pan‐Europe. Coudenhove had tried to establish Pan‐Europe on the basis of the so‐called Little Entente. His connections to the Hradschin were excellent: Tomáš Masaryk, Edvard Beneš and Milan Hodža supported Pan‐Europe. The article discusses the rise and fall of the man and his movement with regard to the Czechoslovak connections.
Keywords: Austria‐Czechoslovakia − Idea of Europe − Idea of the United States of Southeast‐Europe − Little Entente – Pan‐Europe