Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1938
Number:3 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:Edvard Benes
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1884
Year, Death:1948
Profession:Foreign minister 1919-1935), Presiedent (1935-1938)
City:Prague
Country:CZECH REPUBLIC (CZ)
 
Motivation:Benes was nominated for his contribution to Czech independence and for developing an international organization based on the Covenant of the League of Nations. In Paris he and Masaryk formed a propaganda organization that eventually became a Czechoslovak provisional government. With the collapse of Austria-Hungary in November 1918, a new Czechoslovak state was quickly formed. Benes became Foreign Minister of the new government. Benes contributed to the preparation of the Geneva Protocol, the basis for the negotiations in Locarno.
 
Nominator:
Name:Henriette Wurmová
Gender:F
Profession:Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
City:Brno
Country:CZECH REPUBLIC (CZ)
 
Comments: Wurmová suggested both Benes and the Permanent International Peace Bureau, the former being her primary choice.