Kliefoth, Alfred Will (1889-1969)

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Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation (1916)

Peace Ship (1915-1916)

Chrystal Macmillan to Jane Addams, January 14, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 26, 1916

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, February 7, 1916

Jane Addams to Louis Paul Lochner, February 18, 1916

Jane Addams to Chrystal Macmillan, February 18, 1916

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, May 11, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, August 19, 1916

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, August 23, 1916

Henry Ford et al. to Jane Addams, December 7, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer, Lola Maverick Lloyd, Florence Holbrook, Alfred Will Kliefoth to Jane Addams, December 8, 1915

Jane Addams to Alfred Will Kliefoth, November 11, 1915

Jane Addams to Alfred Will Kliefoth, November 15, 1915

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Birth Date

1889-10-10

Death Date

1969-06-28

Birthplace

Mayville, WI

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Alfred Will Kliefoth was an American activist for peace in Western Europe. Kliefoth graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Arts, and by 1915 had become the departmental secretary for the Church Peace Union. Kliefoth was a member of the 1915 Peace Ship, which attempted to negotiate an end to World War I. Although the plan failed, Kliefoth remained in Europe from 1916 to 1919, working as a Military Observer for the United States Embassy at Petrograd (St. Petersburg). Kliefoth's memoir, Bolshevism: By an Eye-Witness from Wisconsin was published in 1920. Kliefoth served in several foreign service desks during the 1920s, working as a Special Assistant for Department of State in 1920 to 1923, American Consul in Berlin from 1924 to 1927, and in Riga, Latvia from 1927 to 1929.

Kliefoth married Barbra Leslie. They had two children, Alexander Alfred and Leslie Andrew Kliefoth. Alfred Kliefoth died in 1969 in San Diego.