Ludwig Lore
Ludwig Lore | |
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Ludwig Lore circa WWI | |
| Born | June 26, 1875 Friedeberg am Queis (now Mirsk), German Empire |
| Died | July 8, 1942 (aged 67) |
| Alma mater | Berlin University |
| Occupation(s) | writer, editor, politician, spy |
| Years active | 1892-1942 |
| Employer(s) | New Yorker Volkszeitung, The Class Struggle, New York Evening Post |
| Known for | editor-in-chief of New Yorker Volkszeitung, columinist for "Behind the Cables" |
| Spouse | Lily Schneppe |
| Children | Karl, Kurt, Eugene |
Ludwig Lore (June 26, 1875 – July 8, 1942) was an American socialist magazine editor, newspaper writer, lecturer, and politician, best remembered for his tenure as editor of the socialist New Yorker Volkszeitung and role as a factional leader in the early American communist movement. During the middle 1930s, he wrote the daily foreign affairs column "Behind the Cables" for the New York Post. Later still, he was charged with having secretly worked recruiting potential agents and gathering information on behalf of the Soviet foreign intelligence network.