Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1937
Number:11 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:Count Richard Nicolas Coudenhove-Kalergi
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1894
Year, Death:1972
Profession:Historian and writer
University:Vienna
City:Vienna
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Motivation:Coudenhove-Kalergi initiated, promoted and led the Pan-European Movement from the 1920s. He devoted his life to the idea of a "united states of Europe". Coudenhove-Kalergi opposed and criticized the Russian political system and in 1933 he warned about a new World War. He also initiated the Pan-European economic conference in Vienna in 1934. The nominators considered the Pan-European idea to be the axis of a new and realistic peace policy.
 
Nominator:
Name:Carl Brockhausen
Gender:M
Profession:Professor of Law (Jurisprudence)
University:Vienna
City:Vienna
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
Comments: The nomination was supported by several former Austrian ministers. The nomination seemed to be part of a campaign in favour of Coudenhove-Kalergi.