| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1937 |
| Number: | 11 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Count Richard Nicolas Coudenhove-Kalergi |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1894 |
| Year, Death: | 1972 |
| Profession: | Historian and writer |
| University: | Vienna |
| City: | Vienna |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
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| Motivation: | Coudenhove-Kalergi initiated, promoted and led the Pan-European Movement from the 1920s. He devoted his life to the idea of a "united states of Europe". Coudenhove-Kalergi opposed and criticized the Russian political system and in 1933 he warned about a new World War. He also initiated the Pan-European economic conference in Vienna in 1934. The nominators considered the Pan-European idea to be the axis of a new and realistic peace policy. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Carl Brockhausen |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professor of Law (Jurisprudence) |
| University: | Vienna |
| City: | Vienna |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
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| Comments: |
The nomination was supported by several former Austrian ministers.
The nomination seemed to be part of a campaign in favour of Coudenhove-Kalergi. |
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