Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1913
Number:31 - 6
 
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:William Evans Darby
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1844
Year, Death:1922
Profession:Congregational minister. Member of the Commission of the Peace Bureau
City:London
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. Darby was secretary of the English Peace Society. He wrote and published literature on peace, international law and arbitration, and he attended several peace congresses.
 
Nominator:
Name:Gaston Moch
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1859
Year, Death:1935
Profession:Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
City:Paris
Country:FRANCE (FR)
 
Comments: Both Darby and Richter was on the short list, but no new evaluations were requested. Moch nominated the two candidates for the reserved 1912 prize.