Walther Adrian Schücking (6 January 1875,
Münster
Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...
,
Westphalia
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The territory of the regio ...
– 25 August 1935) was a German liberal politician, professor of public international law and the first German judge at the
Permanent Court of International Justice
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in
The Hague
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.
He was a German delegate to the
International union of Hague conference, and one of the six German delegates to the
Paris Peace Conference to whom the Allies presented the draft
Treaty of Versailles
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.
Walther Schücking was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize
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in 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934.
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In 1995, the Institute of International Law at the
University of Kiel
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was renamed the
Walther Schücking Institute of International Law in his honor.
Biography
Schücking was born in
Münster
Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...
,
Westphalia
Westphalia (; german: Westfalen ; nds, Westfalen ) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has an area of and 7.9 million inhabitants.
The territory of the regio ...
on 6 January 1875 to the district judge Carl Lothar Levin Schücking and his wife Luise Wilhelmine Amalie Beitzke (daughter of the politician and historian
Heinrich Beitzke). His grandfather was the German novelist
Levin Schücking (1814–1883). His brothers were
Levin Ludwig Schücking
Levin Ludwig Schücking (29 May 1878, Steinfurt, Westphalia – 12 October 1964, Farchant) was a German scholar of the English language and English literature.
Life
He was the major figure of his time in Germany in English studies, as professor ...
(1878–1964), professor of English at the University of Leipzig, and Lothar Engelbert Schücking (1873–1943), lawyer, author and mayor of Husum. Schücking was married to Irmgard Auguste Charlotte Marte von Laer (1881–1952).
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1875 births
1935 deaths
People from Münster
People from the Province of Westphalia
German Protestants
German Democratic Party politicians
Members of the Weimar National Assembly
Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
German Peace Society members
20th-century German judges