German Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1975

The Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833 to 1896) built the Nobel Foundation in his will. Annually, on the anniversary of Nobel's death (December 10), the interest of around SEK 31 million will be distributed as the Nobel Prize for the five most important achievements in the field of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peoples' peace regardless of the nationality of the award winner. The distribution has been running the Stockholm Academy since 1901, with the exception of the Peace Prize, whose prize winner is determined by a committee elected by the Norwegian Storting. The prizes are usually handed over by the Swedish, the peace prize by the Norwegian king. The already deceased German Nobel Peace Prize Laureates are Gustav Stresemann, Ludwig Quidde and Carl von Ossietzky. Gustav Stresemann was born on May 10, 1878 in Berlin and died there on October 3, 1929. As a National Liberal Member of the German Reichstag in 1917 he became a faction leader. He founded the German People's Party in 1918 and became its chairman. In 1923 he became Chancellor. As Foreign Minister from 1923 to 1929, he achieved after the First World War, that Germany was recognized as a politically equal power in the world. He formed the government in 1923 together with the SPD (Grand Coalition). After breaking off the passive resistance in the Ruhr fight and ending inflation, he sought in tough, diplomatically skilfully led wrestling to find a balance with the Western powers, therefore signed the Dawes Plan and the Locarno Treaty and sat, supported by Briand, A. Chamberlain and d'Abernon, the admission of Germany into the League of Nations. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.