25 Facts About Ludwig Lore

Ludwig Lore 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.

Ludwig Lore was born to working class parents of ethnic Jewish extraction in Friedeberg am Queis in Lower Silesia on June 26,1875.

Ludwig Lore remained in that industry until emigrating to the United States in 1903.

Ludwig Lore emigrated to America in 1903 and first settled in the state of Colorado where he worked at various jobs.

Ludwig Lore was an early and active opponent of World War I, speaking at an anti-war meeting in New York City in August 1914 that was attended by 4,000 people.

Ludwig Lore shared the platform a host of other prominent socialist leaders, who condemned the war in English, Russian, French, German, Polish, Italian, Hungarian, Yiddish, and Latvian for their international immigrant audience.

In 1917, Lore founded the bi-monthly Marxist theoretical magazine, The Class Struggle, which he edited in conjunction with Louis C Fraina and Louis Boudin.

Ludwig Lore was a founding member of the Communist Labor Party of America, an organization which, following a decade of splits and mergers, ultimately evolved into the Communist Party USA.

Ludwig Lore was two times a candidate of the Workers Party of America, running for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1922 and for US Congress in the New York 14th District in 1924.

In 1924, Ludwig Lore became an early victim of Party factionalism.

Ludwig Lore was an independent thinker who was reluctant to take political orders, a personal characteristic which made him unsuited for the increasingly centralized Communist movement of the late 1920s.

In 1925, fearing proto-Trotskyist indiscipline, Ludwig Lore was brought up on charges before the executive of the Workers Party's German Language Federation.

Ludwig Lore was expelled from the organization later that same year.

Ludwig Lore sought to occupy political space in between social democracy and communism, a position roughly akin to that of the Independent Labour Party in Great Britain.

Ludwig Lore's Volkszeitung continued to defend the policies of the Soviet Union and sought to support CP-sponsored initiatives in which radicals of various stripes could work together for common objectives, such as the International Workers Order and the International Labor Defense.

In 1931, Ludwig Lore gave up the editorship of the ailing Volkszeitung to become a freelance journalist.

In 1934, Ludwig Lore joined the editorial staff of the New York Post.

Ludwig Lore left the Post in January 1942, when he "took over a special government assignment," according to the New York Times.

In 1909, Ludwig Lore married Lily Schneppe ; together they had three boys.

Ludwig Lore died on July 8,1942, at his home on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.

Ludwig Lore had been a Socialist before the Russian Revolution.

For Ludwig Lore I developed an almost filial feeling as of a younger for an older revolutionist.

Ludwig Lore was being watched, not by the American authorities, but by the Russian secret police.

Chervonnaya indicates that in February 1937 Ludwig Lore's deception was discovered by Soviet intelligence when they rented an apartment across the street from Ludwig Lore and began round-the-clock surveillance.

When providing us with the materials, [Ludwig Lore] repeated his usual lies about a trip to Washington and meetings with sources.