Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921)

Awarded the Prize “for he has devoted his whole life to work for peace, one of the few men to do so; he has probably been the most industrious literary pacifist in the past twenty years.”

Austrian journalist. Fried was born in Vienna on November 11, 1864. He left school at the age of fifteen, worked in his native city as a bookseller, then a few years later went to Berlin where he opened his own press in 1887. Fried became interested in the peace movement German Peace Society, edited its major publication, Monthly Peace Correspondence from 1894 to 1899. He was a member of the Bern Peace Bureau, secretary of the International Conciliation for Central Europe, secretary-general of the Union internationale de la presse pour la paix. Fried died in Vienna on May 5, 1921.
Major Works:
Das Abrustungs-Problem (1904); Hbuch der Friedensbewegung (1905); Der kranke Krieg (1909)