Background
Fried was born on November 11, 1864 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
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Fried was born on November 11, 1864 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Fried left school at the age of 15 and started to work in a bookshop.
Born in Vienna, he worked briefly as a diplomat, but soon turned to book dealing and publishing, establishing a publishing house in Berlin. He began devoting himself to the cause of peace in 1891.
Among his other activities for peace were membership in the Internationa] Institute for Peace, and holding the positions of secretary for central Europe of the International Institute for Peace and general secretary of the Union Internationale de la Presse pour la Paix.
During World War I, he tended prisoners of war in Switzerland and wrote "Kriegslagebuch" (“My War Diary,” 1918-1920). He remained in Switzerland because he had been accused of high treason for his pacifist activities in Austria, but returned to Vienna after the collapse of the Dual Monarchy. He advocated a European union of states after the war and the foundation of international judicial organizations.
He founded the German League for Peace, which was the focus of Germany pacifism up to World War I.
He edited journals, such as Die Waffen Nieder (“Lay Down Your Arms”), from 1899 called Friedenswarte (“The Peacekeeper”), and wrote books, pamphlets and newspaper articles on peace.
He also founded peace societies in Germany and Austria.
