A nomination is meaningless, it’s not at all the same thing as receiving the award. There are 351 nominees this year, and the requirements for being nominated are almost non-existent. Even an associate professor at any college can nominate whoever they want. The one and only criteria for nomination is that a person with recognized credentials submitted the nomination. That’s literally it.
Despite strengthening Germany’s position as a great power by building a powerful navy and promoting scientific innovation, Wilhelm’s tactless public statements and erratic foreign policy greatly antagonized the international community and are considered by many to have substantially contributed to the fall of the German Empire. In 1914, his diplomatic brinksmanship culminated in Germany’s guarantee of military support to Austria-Hungary during the July Crisis which plunged all of Europe into World War I.
Why was this award ever actually considered prestigious
A nomination is meaningless, it’s not at all the same thing as receiving the award. There are 351 nominees this year, and the requirements for being nominated are almost non-existent. Even an associate professor at any college can nominate whoever they want. The one and only criteria for nomination is that a person with recognized credentials submitted the nomination. That’s literally it.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_nominated_for_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize
Apparently Czar Nicholas II also got nominated.
Ooh, and Emperor Wilhelm II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor