Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1935 |
Number: | 8 - 1 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Count Richard Nicolas Coudenhove-Kalergi |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1894 |
Year, Death: | 1972 |
Profession: | Historian and writer |
University: | Vienna |
City: | Vienna |
Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
Motivation: | Coudenhove-Kalergi initiated, promoted and led the Pan-European Movement from the 1920s. He devoted his life to the idea of a "united states of Europe". Coudenhove-Kalergi opposed and criticized the Russian political system and in 1933 he warned about a new World War. He also initiated the Pan-European economic conference in Vienna in 1934. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Alfred Verdross-Drossberg |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1890 |
Year, Death: | 1980 |
Profession: | Professor of Law (Jurisprudence) |
University: | Vienna |
City: | Vienna |
Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
Comments: | The nomination was supported by three other persons. It is uncertain whether they were entitled to nominate. |
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