Robert H. Lochner

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Robert H. Lochner (born October 20, 1918 in New York ; † September 21, 2003 in Berlin ) was an American journalist and diplomat , and also an interpreter , an "American Berliner".

Life

Robert H. Lochner was born to Louis Paul Lochner , a journalist of German origin and later head of the Associated Press office in Berlin . The father was accredited as a correspondent in Berlin from January 1921 until Germany declared war on the United States on December 10, 1941 - initially for the trade union correspondence The Federated Press and from 1924 for the Associated Press . So he grew up in the German capital. He passed his Abitur in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1936 and then began studying in the USA. From 1941 to 1945 he worked for the NBC .

After the war, he earned services in building up the media in Germany , where he also took on important interpreting duties. From 1949 to 1951 he was editor-in-chief of the Frankfurt edition of the Neue Zeitung . From 1958 to 1961 he worked for the Voice of America in the USA, and from 1961 to 1968 as director of the RIAS in Berlin. During a visit by John F. Kennedy in 1963, he practiced the historical sentence “ I am a Berliner ” with him in the Schöneberg Town Hall (in the manuscript of the speech in its legend “Ish am a Bear lee ner”).

After leaving the US Foreign Service in 1972, he became chairman of the Berlin International Association of Journalists.

Lochner's daughter is the actress, writer and translator Anita Lochner .

At the very end of his autobiographical work Always the Unexpected (Darmstadt 1955), his father Louis P. Lochner put a small memorial to his son Robert.

Robert H. Lochner died in Berlin in 2003 at the age of 84. His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis P. Lochner: Always the unexpected. Darmstadt 1955, p. 76.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 584.

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SURNAME Lochner, Robert H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2003
Place of death Berlin