Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1913
Number:50 - 1
 
Nominee 1:
Name: The Swedish Peace and Arbitration League
Profession:Nordic peace association
City:Stockholm
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Nominee 2:
Name: The Danish Peace Association
Profession:Nordic peace association
City:Copenhagen
Country:DENMARK (DK)
 
Nominee 3:
Name: The Norwegian Peace Association
Profession:Nordic peace association
City:Kristiania (now Oslo)
Country:NORWAY (NO)
 
Motivation:Associations that originally advocated Nordic neutrality, international peace and arbitration. The Danish Peace Association was founded by Fredrik Bajer, the Norwegian Peace Association was founded by C. Bernhard Hanssen and the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League was founded by Klas Pontus Arnoldson. The associations organized Scandinavian peace conferences.
 
Nominator:
Name:Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen
Gender:M
Profession:Member of the Norwegian parliament. Member of the Nobel Committee (1913-1939).
City:Flekkefjord
Country:NORWAY (NO)
 
Comments: The nomination was one of three alternatives that Hanssen submitted to the Committee. The first alternative was a prize divided between the Danish Peace Association, the Norwegian Peace Association and the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League. The second alternative was a prize divided between Norman Angell and Carl Sundblad. The third alternative was Andrew Carnegie.