Baukhage, H.R., 1889-1976

Hilmar Robert Baukhage (January 7, 1889 – January 31, 1976) was an American journalist and broadcaster. He was known to the public only as H. R. Baukage or just Baukhage.

Baukhage was born on January 7, 1889, in LaSalle, Illinois; his family later moved to Buffalo. A member of the University of Chicago class of 1911, he received a bachelor of philosophy degree from that university and studied in Bonn, Kiel, Freiburg, and Paris. Baukhage served on the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes in Paris during World War I, where he covered the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He served on Stars and Stripes with Steve Early, later a White House Press Secretary for the entirety of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. Later, Baukhage was a wire service reporter for the Associated Press and worked under David Lawrence for United States News (later merged into U.S. News & World Report).

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