Robert Lochner

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

Life

Robert H. Lochner was born the son of a journalist, later to become head of the Associated Press offices in Berlin Louis Paul Lochner. Since his father worked from 1924 until the entry of America as a correspondent of the Associated Press in Berlin in the war, he grew up in the German capital. He took off his Abitur in 1936 in Berlin- Charlottenburg and then began to study in the United States. From 1941 to 1945 he worked for the NBC.

After the war, he acquired in Germany accomplishments in building the media, where he simultaneously took on significant Interpreters tasks. From 1949 to 1951 he was editor in chief of the Frankfurt edition of the new newspaper. 1958 to 1961 he worked for the Voice of America in the United States, 1961-1968 as director of the RIAS in Berlin. When visiting John F. Kennedy in 1963, he practiced with this in the Rathaus Schöneberg the historic phrase " Ich bin ein Berliner " (in the speech manuscript in his inscription " Ish 'm a Bearleener ").

After retiring in 1972 from the Foreign Service of the United States, he was Chairman of the International Federation of Journalists Berlin.

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

His father, Louis P. Lochner has (1955 Darmstadt) his son Robert set " the unexpected always " a small monument at the very end of his autobiographical work.

Awards

• Liberty Bell in Silver
• Federal Cross of Merit
• 1993: Order of Merit of the Federal State of Berlin
• Wilhelm- Leuschner- medal
• Lucius D. Clay medal