| 词条 | Jack Koehler |
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|name = Jack Koehler |office = White House Director of Communications |president = Ronald Reagan |term_start = March 1, 1987 |term_end = March 13, 1987 |predecessor = Pat Buchanan |successor = Tom Griscom |birth_name = Wolfgang Koehler |birth_date = {{birth date|1930|6|11}} |birth_place = Dresden, Germany |death_date = {{death date and age|2012|9|28|1930|6|11}} |death_place = Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. |party = Republican |education = Dresden Business College San Francisco State University New York University }}John O. "Jack" Koehler (June 11, 1930 – September 28, 2012) was a German-born American journalist and executive for the Associated Press, who also briefly served as the White House Communications Director in 1987 during the Reagan administration.[1] Koehler was born Wolfgang Koehler in Dresden, Germany, but fled the city to escape the invasion of Soviet troops into Germany towards the end of World War II.[1] He soon found a position as a German language interpreter for the United States Army when he was a teenager.[1] He moved to Canada after World War II and then immigrated to the United States in 1954.[1] Koehler enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he worked in intelligence.[1] He legally changed his name to John Koehler after moving to the United States.[1] Koehler took a position with the Associated Press as a foreign correspondent in Berlin and Bonn, West Germany.[1] He then became the Associated Press' bureau chief in Newark, New Jersey.[1] He rose to become the assistant general manager and managing director of AP's world services, a position he held until his retirement in 1985.[1] The United States Information Agency recruited Koehler to lobby on behalf of Afghan rebels following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1] He traveled to Pakistan and France to focus on helping rebels get their messages out to journalists and foreign governments.[1] In 1987, Koehler, who was friends with Ronald Reagan, became the White House Communications Director.[1] However, Koehler resigned after just one week in the White House after it became public that he had been a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk, a Nazi government youth division, when he was ten years old.[1] Koehler insisted that his membership in the Jungvolk was not the reason for his resignation, dismissing the Jungvolk as "the Boy Scouts run by the Nazi party."[1] Rather he wanted to give his successor time to choose a new communication team.[1] He then started an international consulting firm.[1] He authored two books during his later life, Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police and Spies in the Vatican: The Soviet Union's Cold War Against the Catholic Church.[1] Koehler died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, on September 28, 2012, at the age of 82.[1] He was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 {{cite news|first=|last=|title=Former AP executive Koehler, who also served a week in Reagan White House, dies in Conn. at 82 |url=http://timesleader.com/archive/46102/stories-jack-koehler2c-former-ap-exec2c-dies-in-conn-at-82211116|work=Associated Press |publisher =Times Leader |date=2012-09-29 |accessdate=2017-07-31}} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{s-bef|before=Pat Buchanan}}{{s-ttl|title=White House Director of Communications|years=1987}}{{s-aft|after=Tom Griscom}}{{s-end}}{{WHCD}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Koehler, Jack}} 8 : 1930 births|2012 deaths|American male journalists|Associated Press reporters|German emigrants to the United States|People from Dresden|White House Communications Directors|Writers from Stamford, Connecticut |
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