Louis P. Lochner

Ludwig "Louis" Paul Lochner (February 22, 1887 – January 8, 1975) was an American political activist, journalist, and author. In World War I Lochner was a leading figure in the American and international anti-war movement. Later he served for many years as head of the Berlin bureau of Associated Press, best remembered for his work there as a foreign correspondent. Lochner was awarded the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for correspondence for his wartime reporting from Nazi Germany. In December 1941 Lochner was interned by the Nazis and later released in a prisoner exchange.

Louis Lochner was born February 22, 1887 in Springfield, Illinois to Johann Friedrich Karl Lochner and Maria Lochner née von Haugwitz. The senior Lochner was a Lutheran minister.

In 1905 Louis graduated from the Wisconsin Music Conservatory. He went on to attend the University of Wisconsin at Madison, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in earning a Bachelor's degree in 1909.

On September 7, 1910 he married Emmy Hoyer; they had two children, Elsbeth and Robert. Hoyer died in 1920.

Lochner married again in 1922, his second wife being Hilde De Terra, née Steinberger, who brought Rosemarie De Terra, her daughter from her first marriage, into the family.

During the second decade of the 20th century Lochner was a leading activist in the American pacifist movement. Late in 1914 he was appointed Executive Director of the Chicago-based Emergency Peace Federation, working closely with social activist Jane Addams in an attempt to call an international conference of neutral nations to mediate an end to World War I. Lochner, Addams, and their Emergency Peace Federation were instrumental in convening a national conference in Chicago in February 1915 which brought together delegates representing pacifist, religious, and anti-militarist political organizations from around the United States.

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