| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1934 |
| Number: | 17 - 1 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Friedrich Wilhelm Förster |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1869 |
| Year, Death: | 1966 |
| Profession: | Professor of Mathematics. Educator. |
| City: | Berlin |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Motivation: | Förster promoted ethics, peace and international arbitration. He worked to improve the relations between France and Germany. Förster represented the pedagogic school of the peace movement. He was not motivated by political sentiments, but by his religious understanding and perception of ethics. He was a proponent of anti-militarism. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Otfried Nippold |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1864 |
| Year, Death: | 1938 |
| Profession: | Chief Justice. Member of the Institute of International Law |
| City: | Saarbrücken |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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| Comments: |
Förster was deprived of his civil rights by the Nazis, and he was living in Paris. |
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