Nansen International Office for Refugees

The Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés, known to German as Nansen International Office for Refugees, was an organization of the League, who took care of in the years 1930 to 1939 internationally for the help of refugees from war zones. It was in 1938 awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

History

The Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés was founded in 1930 shortly after the death of its namesake Fridtjof Nansen from the League of Nations to continue its successful work in the international refugee aid. The organization mainly for material and political assistance to refugees should provide. First President of the Office was from 1930 to February 1933 Max Huber, the then President of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The problem was from 1933, the aid for refugees from Nazi Germany, - as the Nansen Office was not formally responsible - and from Spain, whose recording denied many states. Despite or perhaps because the organization was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize. Shortly thereafter, however, it was dissolved. The prize money went to a newly established refugee organization, the League of Nations.