The Nomination Database for the
Nobel Peace Prize, 1901-1956

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Year Nominator Nominee(s) Motivation  
1908 Czelakovsky Vrba Show »
1910 Zokkowitz Vrba Show »
1913 Drtina / Novosny Masaryk Masaryk promoted humanism, ethics, and pacifism. Czech nationalist working to improve the relations between Czechs and Germans both within and outside Bohemia. He took active part of the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in the trial against 53 alleged Serbian traitors in 1908. He fought to defend the Slav peoples against Austrian-Hungarian imperialism and in 1912, when a war between the the double monarchy and Serbia seemed inevitable, he succesfully acted as mediator. Show »
1914 Drtina / Novosny Masaryk Masaryk promoted humanism, ethics, and pacifism. Czech nationalist working to improve the relations between Czechs and Germans both within and outside Bohemia. He took active part of the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in the trial against 53 alleged Serbian traitors in 1908. He fought to defend the Slav peoples against Austrian-Hungarian imperialism and in 1912, when a war between the the double monarchy and Serbia seemed inevitable, he succesfully acted as mediator. Show »
1915 Drtina / Novosny Masaryk Masaryk promoted humanism, ethics, and pacifism. Czech nationalist working to improve the relations between Czechs and Germans both within and outside Bohemia. He took active part of the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in the trial against 53 alleged Serbian traitors in 1908. He fought to defend the Slav peoples against Austrian-Hungarian imperialism and in 1912, when a war between the the double monarchy and Serbia seemed inevitable, he succesfully acted as mediator. Show »
1915 Kotlar Vrba Show »
1921 22 Professors at the University of Prague (Drtina and Novotny) Masaryk Masaryk promoted humanism, ethics, and pacifism. As a Czechoslovakian nationalist he fought to defend the Slav peoples against Austrian-Hungarian imperialism. He successfully acted as mediator between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in 1912. During World War I Masaryk advocated democratic rights and human liberation. He was the chief founder and first president of Czechoslovakia. Show »
1921 84 members of the Czechoslovakian parliament Masaryk Masaryk promoted humanism, ethics, and pacifism. As a Czechoslovakian nationalist he fought to defend the Slav peoples against Austrian-Hungarian imperialism. He successfully acted as mediator between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in 1912. During World War I Masaryk advocated democratic rights and human liberation. He was the chief founder and first president of Czechoslovakia. Show »
1923 Taranger Masaryk Masaryk promoted humanism, ethics, and pacifism. As a Czechoslovakian nationalist he fought to defend the Slav peoples against Austrian-Hungarian imperialism. He successfully acted as mediator between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in 1912. During World War I Masaryk advocated democratic rights and human liberation. He was the chief founder and first president of Czechoslovakia. Show »
1926 Castberg Benes Benes was nominated for his contribution to Czech independence and for developing an international organization based on the Covenant of the League of Nations. In Paris he and Masaryk formed a propaganda organization that eventually became a Czechoslovak provisional government. With the collapse of Austria-Hungary in November 1918, a new Czechoslovak state was quickly formed. Benes became Foreign Minister of the new government. Benes contributed to the preparation of the Geneva Protocol, the basis for the negotiations in Locarno. Show »
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