Ludwig Lore

Ludwig Lore
Lore c. 1939
Born(1875-06-26)June 26, 1875
DiedJuly 8, 1942(1942-07-08) (aged 67)
Alma materBerlin University
OccupationsWriter, editor, politician, spy
Years active1892–1942
Employer(s)New Yorker Volkszeitung, The Class Struggle, New York Evening Post
Known forEditor-in-chief of New Yorker Volkszeitung, columinist for "Behind the Cables"
Spouse
Lily Schneppe
(m. 1909)
ChildrenKarl, 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.