| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1909 |
| Number: | 8 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Alfred Hermann Fried |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1864 |
| Year, Death: | 1921 |
| Profession: | Editor and journalist. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
| City: | Vienna |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1911 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | The Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| Profession: | Central office through which peace activities could be coordinated |
| City: | Bern |
| Country: | SWITZERLAND (CH) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1910 |
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| Motivation: | Fried founded the journal "Die Waffen Nieder" in 1891, and he established the German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft) in 1892. He also published "Monatliche Friedenskorrespondenz" and edited "Die Friedenswarte". Fried promoted international law, pacifism and disarmament, and he worked closely with Bertha von Suttner.
The Peace Bureau organized peace conferences, and it collected and published peace literature. It was the heart of the European peace movement, and it co-ordinated the activities of the various national and non-governmental peace organizations. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Fredrik Bajer |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1837 |
| Year, Death: | 1922 |
| Profession: | Honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1908. |
| City: | Copenhagen |
| Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
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