Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
Year: | 1927 |
Number: | 12 - 1 |
Nominee: |
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Name: | Ludwig Quidde |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1858 |
Year, Death: | 1941 |
Profession: | Veteran peace leader. Historian. Journalist. Chairman of the German Peace Society. |
City: | Munich |
Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1927 | |
Motivation: | Quidde joined the German Peace Society in 1892 (chairman 1914-1929), and in 1894 he founded a peace association in Munich. He was a prominent advocate of peace and pacifism. From 1907 to 1919 Quidde was a liberal member of the Bavarian parliament and member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. In 1919 he joined the Democratic Party and from 1919 to 1920 he served as a member of the National Assembly. He denounced the German war-guilt clause of the Versailles Treaty and he opposed the revival of German militarism. He was chairman of the German Peace Cartel 1921-29. Quidde advocated German admittance to the League of Nations. |
Nominator: |
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Name: | Aage Friis |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Professor of History |
University: | University of Copenhagen |
City: | Copenhagen |
Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
Comments: | Quidde was on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested. |
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