Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1914
Number:18 - 2
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Adolf Richter
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1839
Year, Death:1914
Profession:Professor. Member of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
City:Pforzheim
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Felix Stone Moscheles
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1833
Year, Death:1917
Profession:Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:Richter was chairman of the German Peace Association. One of the central figures of the early German peace movement. He attended international peace conferences and presided over the peace conference in Hamburg in 1897. Moscheles had been working for peace since he became a member of the Peace Association in 1878. Member of the Committee of the International Arbitration and Peace Association in 1880 and executive chairman of the Association from 1897. Promoted peace, international arbitration and pacifism.
 
Nominator:
Name:Émile Arnaud
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1864
Year, Death:1921
Profession:Lawyer. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
City:Luzarches
Country:FRANCE (FR)
 
Comments: Richter was on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested. Adolf Richter died August 13, 1914.