Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1921
Number:5 - 2
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Christian Lous Lange
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1869
Year, Death:1938
Profession:Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (1909-1933).
University:Kristiania University
City:Kristiania (now Oslo)
Country:NORWAY (NO)
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1921
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Karl Hjalmar Branting
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1860
Year, Death:1925
Profession:Member of the Swedish parliament. Founder and leader of the Swedish Socialist Party.
City:Stockholm
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1921
 
Motivation:Lange served as secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1901 to 1909, and he played an important role in the founding and development of the Norwegian Nobel Institute that opened in 1905. He advocated peace and disarmament and he attended several international peace conferences. Lange was secretary general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from 1909 to 1933. During WWI he moved the office of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to Oslo, in order to continue and preserve the work of the Union and to protect its records from possible wartime destruction. Branting promoted peace, conciliatory international diplomacy and anti militarism. Contributed to the peaceful dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian Union in 1905 and continued to work on the development of good Swedish-Norwegian relations. Branting was one of the foremost members of the international social democratic movement and he exercised great influence on its peace work.
 
Nominator:
Name: The Swedish Inter-Parliamentary Group (Edvard Wavrinsky)
Profession:Members of parliament
City:Stockholm
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Comments: Branting was on the short list. Worm-Müller was supposed to write the evaluation, but due to illness he was unable to do so. There was no time for Ragnvald Moe to write an evaluation. Branting was prime minister from March to September 1920.