| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Number: | 1 - 2 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1857 |
| Year, Death: | 1941 |
| Profession: | Army officer. Founder of the Boy Scouts movement. |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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| Motivation: | Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1907 and he organized the movement internationally. He and his sister Agnes founded the Girl Guides in 1910 (in the US Girls Scouts from 1912). In 1916 Baden-Powell organized the Wolf Cubs in Great Britain (Cub Scouts in the US) for boys under the age of 11. The nominators emphasized the brotherly mentality and the non-militaristic character of the movement.
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Edvin Linkomies |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Member of the Finnish parliament. Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. |
| Country: | FINLAND (FI) |
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| Comments: |
Nomination also signed by Leo Böök, Yrjö Hirvensalo and Kalle Soini, Members of the Finnish parliament. Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. |
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