Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Knudsen, Presiding, on December 10, 1906 As the meets today, the tenth of December, perhaps for the last time in this hall, to announce to the Norwegian Parliament its decision concerning the award of the Peace Prize, it is appropriate to recall that the Norwegian Parliament was one of the first…

Presentation by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1908 On behalf of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, I have the honor to extend a welcome to all who have assembled here on this occasion commemorating the great Swedish patron and benefactor, Alfred Nobel, who gave the whole of his…

Toast by Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland, Chairman of the on May 16, 1904 Dear Mr. Ducommun, when the Committee of the Norwegian Parliament was asked to honor and reward the work of peace, our thoughts immediately turned to the men who have done this work during the long difficult years when it was received with a…

The Occasion of the First Award The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at a meeting of the Norwegian Parliament which took place at ten o’clock on the morning of December 10, 1901. The ceremony was brief, lasting only fifteen minutes. Mr. Carl Christian Bremer, president of the Parliament, opened it with this brief address:…

Presentation Speech by Ragnvald Moe, Secretary to the , on December 10, 1913 Henri La Fontaine is the true leader of the popular peace movement in Europe. Since 1907 he has been president of the in Bern. He is also a prominent member of the Interparliamentary Union. La Fontaine was born on April 22, 1854,…

Presentation Speech by Fredrik Stang, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1927 The Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for this year jointly to Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde. At last year’s ceremony the Committee gave prominence to three events of historical significance to the world: the Dawes Plan, the Locarno Pact, and…

Presentation Speech by , member of the , on December 10, 1934 In the work for international peace, as in other fields of human endeavor, there must be a division of labor; among others, a division of labor between technicians and educators. Mr. is one of the technicians, a statesman devising plans for peace and…

Presentation Speech by Fredrik Stang, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1936 Carl von Ossietzky, who has been awarded the Peace Prize for 1935, belongs to no political party. He is not a Communist; he is not in any sense a conservative. Indeed, one cannot easily pin on him any of the usual political…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the , December 10, 1945 Cordell Hull has devoted his entire life to the stabilization of international relations. Best known to the public are his untiring efforts in the field of commercial policy, efforts inspired by his desire to counteract autarchic tendencies both in the U.S.A. and abroad.…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of Albert Schweitzer was born in Alsace in 1875, a few years after this province had become part of the German Empire. He has seen Alsace reincorporated with France, overrun by the Germans during the Second World War, and then once again reunited with France. Having grown up in…