Nomination archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1934
Number:17 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:Friedrich Wilhelm Förster
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1869
Year, Death:1966
Profession:Professor of Mathematics. Educator.
City:Berlin
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
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.
 
Nominator:
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)
 
Comments: Förster was deprived of his civil rights by the Nazis, and he was living in Paris.