Louis Paul Lochner was born on 22 February 1887 in Springfield, Illinois. He was
educated at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and University of Wisconsin, where
he graduated in 1909. He worked as a secretary to Henry Ford, at the Milwaukee Free Press, and finally at the Associated
Press Berlin Bureau. As a war correspondent he covered the field and made many
German connections before he was interned in 1941 for about five months before being
released during a prisoner exchange. In 1939, Lochner was the Pulitzer Prize Foreign
Correspondent winner. He also wrote several books, translated children’s books,
wrote for periodicals, was a lecturer, and was a news commentator on NBC. He died on
8 January 1975.
