Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde (German pronunciation: [ˈluːtvɪç ˈkvɪdə] (listen); 23 March 1858, Free City of Bremen – 4 March 1941) was a German politician and pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned four different eras of German history: that of Bismarck (up to 1890); the Hohenzollern Empire under Wilhelm II (1888–1918); the Weimar Republic (1918–1933); and, finally, Nazi Germany. In 1927, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.Born into a wealthy bourgeois merchant family, Quidde grew up in Bremen, read history and also got involved in the activities of the German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft). In his younger years he had already opposed Bismarck's policies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Quidde has received more than 92,286 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Ludwig Quidde is the 3,872nd most popular politician (down from 3,150th in 2019), the 1,068th most popular biography from Germany (down from 824th in 2019) and the 302nd most popular German Politician.

Ludwig Quidde is most famous for being the first person to coin the term "First World War" in 1915. He did this because he felt that the war was not a fight between two countries, but rather a fight between the poor and the rich.