High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ludwig Lore (1875 – 1942) was an American socialist newspaper editor and politician, best remembered for his tenure as editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung and role as a factional leader in the early American communist movement. During the middle 1930s, Lore wrote a daily foreign affairs column for the New York Post and secretly worked recruiting potential agents and gathering information on behalf of the Soviet foreign intelligence network.