Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1913
Number:31 - 4
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Adolf Richter
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1839
Year, Death:1914
Profession:Professor. Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
City:Pforzheim
Country:GERMANY (DE)
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Priscilla Hannah Peckover
Gender:F
Year, Birth:1833
Year, Death:1931
Profession:Peace activist
City:Wisbech (Cambridgeshire)
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:Richter was chairman of the German Peace Association. One of the central figures of the early German peace movement. He attended international peace conferences and presided over the peace conference in Hamburg in 1897. Peckover founded the Wisbech Local Peace Association. She was editor and publisher of the journal "Peace and Goodwill". Peckover supported peace work in and outside of Great Britain, especially in the Nordic countries.
 
Nominator:
Name:Joseph G Alexander
Gender:M
Profession:Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
 
Comments: Both Richter and Peckover was om the short list, but no new evaluations were requested.