Fredrik Bajer

Fredrik Bajer (* April 21, 1837 in Vesteregede; † January 22, 1922 in Copenhagen) was a Danish politician and parliamentarian. For his commitment to international peacekeeping and especially for his work with the Bureau International Permanent de la Paix ( Permanent International Peace Bureau ), which he was president, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908.

Life

Fredrik Bajer was the son of a clergyman and went from 1848 to 1854 on the Soro Akademi. Shortly before graduation, he broke the school from to become a career officer, and went to the Military Academy Copenhagen. He completed this in 1856 and was assigned to the Cavalry as a second lieutenant. After the German -Danish War of 1864 took part, he decided to become peace politicians. In 1865 he retired from the Army, and paid himself and his family by teaching at various schools in Copenhagen.

1867 joined Bajer at Société Française pour l' arbitrage entre nations ( International League for Peace ) by Frédéric Passy and campaigned for very intense in the countries of Scandinavia. In 1869 he was chairman of a constituency association in Copenhagen and in 1872 elected to this position in the Danish Parliament. Until 1895 he was a member of the Danish Reichstag and joined very committed to women's rights and social issues a. So he wanted to impose a system of proportional representation, reduce tariff barriers and use people's militia instead of the traditional army. Together with his wife, a very active women's rights activist, he founded in 1871, the Danish Women's League. Bajer 1882 founded the Danish peace association, which later became the Danish Peace Society and for 1892 until he took over the presidency from 1884.

On November 13, 1891 Bajer was one of the founding members of the Bureau International Permanent de la Paix at the Peace Congress in Rome, which put its headquarters to Switzerland to Bern. He became the first president of the organization and remained so until 1907, after which he was honorary president. As a participant, he attended the peace congresses of the International League for Peace and Freedom and the Scandinavian National Peace Congresses and almost all world peace congresses. After his retirement from active work for peace, he watched the destruction of his ideals in the First World War and at the Nobel Prize awards ceremony, he was critical of the lack of organization of the peace movement. He died in 1922 in Copenhagen.