Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1933 |
Number: | 41 - 6 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Walther Adrian Schücking |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1875 |
Year, Death: | 1935 |
Profession: | Professor of Law. Member of the Permanent Court of International Justice. |
University: | Philipps University of Marburg |
City: | Marburg |
Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
Motivation: | Schücking promoted international law and arbitration. He had been associated with the Institute of International Law since 1910. After WWI Schücking became a leading member of the "Deutsche Liga für den Völkervorbund" and he worked primarily on a draft of a covenant for the League of Nations. He was a member of the German delegation to the Versailles peace negotiations. In 1919 Schücking initiated the founding of a new German Inter-Parliamentary Group, over which he presided. He was also a member of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Ludwig Quidde |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1858 |
Year, Death: | 1941 |
Profession: | Former professor of history. Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1927. |
City: | Munich |
Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
Comments: | Schücking was on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested. Quidde nominated both Schücking and the Permanent International Peace Bureau, the latter being his primary choice. |
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