Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1911
Number:30 - 2
 
Nominee 1:
Name: Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft
City:Stuttgart
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Alfred Hermann Fried
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1864
Year, Death:1921
Profession:Editor and journalist. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
City:Vienna
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1911
 
Motivation:Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft (German Peace Society) was nominated for its efforts to advocate peace. Fried founded the journal "Die Waffen Nieder" in 1891, and he established the German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft) in 1892. He also published "Monatliche Friedenskorrespondenz" and edited "Die Friedenswarte". Fried promoted international law, pacifism and disarmament, and he worked closely with Bertha von Suttner. Author of the books "Pan-Amerika" and "Der Kaiser und der Weltfrieden".
 
Nominator:
Name:Per Nilsson-Bosson
Gender:M
Profession:Member of parliament/Chairman of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League.
City:Stockholm
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Comments: The nomination was made on behalf of the the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League.