| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1911 |
| Number: | 30 - 2 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft |
| City: | Stuttgart |
| Country: | GERMANY (DE) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Alfred Hermann Fried |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1864 |
| Year, Death: | 1921 |
| Profession: | Editor and journalist. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
| City: | Vienna |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1911 |
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| Motivation: | Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft (German Peace Society) was nominated for its efforts to advocate peace.
Fried founded the journal "Die Waffen Nieder" in 1891, and he established the German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft) in 1892. He also published "Monatliche Friedenskorrespondenz" and edited "Die Friedenswarte". Fried promoted international law, pacifism and disarmament, and he worked closely with Bertha von Suttner. Author of the books "Pan-Amerika" and "Der Kaiser und der Weltfrieden". |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Per Nilsson-Bosson |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Member of parliament/Chairman of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League. |
| City: | Stockholm |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
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| Comments: |
The nomination was made on behalf of the the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League. |
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