The Anglo-German Friendship Committee was a London-based association founded in 1905 to promote the improvement of cordial relations between
Great Britain
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and
Germany
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.
The Committee was launched on 1 December 1905 at a meeting in
Caxton Hall
Caxton Hall is a building on the corner of Caxton Street and Palmer Street, in Westminster, London, England. It is a Grade II listed building primarily noted for its historical associations. It hosted many mainstream and fringe political and art ...
, London.
Its principal founders were the banker and politician
Lord Avebury and the politician
Lord Courtney. The pacifist Baroness
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel ...
, who was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemi ...
in the same month, was also involved. F. W. Fox became the honorary secretary. The committee's establishment was welcomed by prominent
German-Americans
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, who sent a telegram of support to the inaugural meeting.
The
German ambassador in London
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and the
British ambassador in Berlin both also expressed their approval.
See also
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All Peoples' Association
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Anglo-German Fellowship
The Anglo-German Fellowship was a membership organisation that existed from 1935 to 1939, and aimed to build up friendship between the United Kingdom and Germany. It was widely perceived as being allied to Nazism. Previous groups in Britain wit ...
, which existed 1935–1939
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Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft, the German sister organisation of the Anglo-German Fellowship
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Germany–United Kingdom relations
References
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Germany–United Kingdom relations
Organizations established in 1905
1905 establishments in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom friendship associations
Germany friendship associations