| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1927 |
| Number: | 12 - 5 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Ludwig Quidde |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1858 |
| Year, Death: | 1941 |
| Profession: | Veteran peace leader. Historian. Journalist. Chairman of the German Peace Society. |
| City: | Munich |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1927 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Carl Albert Lindhagen |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1860 |
| Year, Death: | 1946 |
| Profession: | Mayor of Stockholm. Member of the Swedish parliament 1897-1917, 1919-1940. |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
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| Motivation: | Quidde joined the German Peace Society in 1892 (chairman 1914-1929), and in 1894 he founded a peace association in Munich. He was a prominent advocate of peace and pacifism. From 1907 to 1919 Quidde was a liberal member of the Bavarian parliament and member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. In 1919 he joined the Democratic Party and from 1919 to 1920 he served as a member of the National Assembly. He denounced the German war-guilt clause of the Versailles Treaty and he opposed the revival of German militarism. He was chairman of the German Peace Cartel 1921-29. Quidde advocated German admittance to the League of Nations.
Lindhagen supported female suffrage and social reform, and he advocated disarmament and international co-operation based on international law. He actively worked for a joint Scandiavian effort to promote international civil law. Lindhagen was a prominent member of the radical peace movement.
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Nominator:
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| Name: | 41 members of the Swedish Inter-Parliamentary Group |
| Profession: | Members of parliament |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
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| Comments: |
Lindhagen was one of legal advisor to the Alfred Nobel estate; in effect he became an associate executor. He also drafted the Nobel Foundation Charter in 1899.
Both Lindhagen and Quidde was on the short list, but no new evaluations were requested. |
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