Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
Year: | 1912 |
Number: | 20 - 5 |
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Nominee 1:
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Name: | Adolf Richter |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1839 |
Year, Death: | 1914 |
Profession: | Professor. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
City: | Pforzheim |
Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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Nominee 2:
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Name: | Sir Thomas Barclay |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1853 |
Year, Death: | 1941 |
Profession: | Former journalist. Jurist. Political writer. Advocate of international law. |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Motivation: | Richter was chairman of the German Peace Association. One of the central figures of the early German peace movement. He attended international peace conferences and presided over the peace conference in Hamburg in 1897.
Barclay promoted arbitration, conciliation and international law. He was president of the British Chamber of Commerce 1899-1900. Barclay was a member of the Institute of International Law and deputy Chairman of the International Law Association. He worked to improve the relations between European countries in order to prevent war and to secure peace.
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Nominator:
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Name: | Heinrich Harburger |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Professor of Law. Member of the Institute of International Law. |
City: | Munich |
Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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