Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1937
Number:14 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:Edo Fimmen
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1881
Profession:Trade union leader
City:Amsterdam
Country:NETHERLANDS (NL)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:E van Walleghem
Gender:M
Profession:Member of the Belgian parliament
City:Brussels
Country:BELGIUM (BE)
 
Comments: According to the rules of the Nobel Foundation, this nomination was not valid due to missing motivation for the candidacy. However, it was included as a valid nomination in the list of nominees for 1937. Fimmen was elected secretary both of the International Federation of Transport Workers and the Association of International Trade Unions in 1919. He was forced to leave the latter in 1923; he had encouraged a joint action by the European trade unions against the new dangers of war and for the protection of the German working class. Fimmen was re-elected in 1924, agitating for a proletarian revolution in order to establish a union of free proletarian republics.