Kenneth Lewis Kronberg (ca. 1949 – April 11, 2007) was an American businessman and long-time member of the LaRouche movement, an organization founded by American political activist Lyndon LaRouche. Kronberg was president of PMR Printing Co. and World Composition Services Inc., in Sterling, Virginia.^[1] The printing business was set up in 1978 to print material for the LaRouche movement.^[2] Image File history File linksMetadata Lyndon_LaRouche. ... The LaRouche Movement is an international political and cultural movement which promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas, including a number of conspiracy theories. ... Lyndon LaRouche at a news conference in Paris in February 2006. ... Lyndon LaRouche at a news conference in Paris in February 2006. ... Lyndon LaRouches U.S. Presidential campaigns have been a staple of American politics since 1976. ... Defunct California Proposition 64 North American Labour Party Party for the Commonwealth of Canada Parti pour la république du Canada U.S. Labor Party United States v. ... Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born August 25, 1948, Trier) is a German political activist, wife of controversial American political activist, Lyndon LaRouche, and founder of the LaRouche movements Schiller Institute and the German B rgerrechtsbewegung Solidarit t party (B eSo) (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity). ... Michael O Billington is an activist in the LaRouche Movement, Asia editor for the Executive Intelligence Review, and author of Reflections of an American Political Prisoner: the Repression and Promise of the LaRouche Movement (ISBN 0-943235-17-0. ... Amelia Boynton Robinson Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson (born 1911) was an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement and later became a leader in the Lyndon LaRouche-related Schiller Institute. ... Jacques Cheminade, born August 20, 1941 in Argentina, is a French politician. ... Janice Hart was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of Illinois Secretary of State in 1986. ... Jeremiah Duggan Jeremiah Jerry Duggan (November 10, 1980 – March 27, 2003), a British student at the Sorbonne in Paris, died after being hit by several cars while running down the middle of a busy road near Wiesbaden, Germany. ... The LaRouche Movement is an international political and cultural movement which promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas, including a number of conspiracy theories. ... Defunct California Proposition 64 North American Labour Party Party for the Commonwealth of Canada Parti pour la république du Canada U.S. Labor Party The National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) is a political cadre organization in the United States founded and controlled by political activist Lyndon LaRouche, who... CEC members demonstrate outside an election meeting organised by the Australian Jewish News in Melbourne, September 2004. ... LaRouche Youth chorus performing Bach The Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement (WLYM) is a political body linked to controversial American political figure Lyndon LaRouche. ... The Schiller Institute is an international political and economic thinktank and is one of the primary institutions in the Lyndon LaRouche movement, with headquarters in both Germany and the United States. ... Defunct California Proposition 64 North American Labour Party Party for the Commonwealth of Canada Parti pour la république du Canada U.S. Labor Party Party symbol The European Workers Party (Europeiska arbetarpartiet - EAP) is a very small political party in Sweden without parliamentary representation. ... Proposition 64 was a proposition in the state of California on the November 4, 1986 ballot. ... This is part of a series on Lyndon LaRouche and related people, organizations and issues. ... This is part of a series on Lyndon LaRouche and related people, organizations and issues. ... The Parti pour la république du Canada (Québec) (in English: Party for the Commonwealth of Canada (Quebec)) was the Quebec branch of the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada, a Canadian political party formed by supporters of U.S. politician Lyndon LaRouche. ... See Labor Party (USA) for the modern party which has a similar name but is unconnected with the US Labor Party Defunct California Proposition 64 (1986) North American Labour Party Party for the Commonwealth of Canada Parti pour la république du Canada U.S. Labor Party The U.S... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini era. ... The LaRouche Movement is an international political and cultural movement which promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas, including a number of conspiracy theories. ... Lyndon LaRouche at a news conference in Paris in February 2006. ... Sterling, Virginia is an unincorporated Washington, D.C. suburb, northwest of Herndon, east of Ashburn, and west of Reston, close to Dulles International Airport in Loudoun County. ...

He was also the co-founder and editor of Fidelio, the magazine of the Schiller Institute, a LaRouche movement think-tank founded by Helga Zepp-LaRouche.^[1] Fidelio (Op. ... The Schiller Institute is an international political and economic thinktank and is one of the primary institutions in the Lyndon LaRouche movement, with headquarters in both Germany and the United States. ... Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born August 25, 1948, Trier) is a German political activist, wife of controversial American political activist, Lyndon LaRouche, and founder of the LaRouche movements Schiller Institute and the German B rgerrechtsbewegung Solidarit t party (B eSo) (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity). ...

Kronberg died in a fall from a highway overpass on April 11, the same day that the LaRouche movement's "morning briefing" had criticized his printing services and suggested that "baby boomers" within LaRouche's ranks commit suicide.^[2][3]

Education and career

Kronberg was born in the Bronx, New York. He graduated in 1968 from St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, followed by a year of study as a junior fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. He also did graduate work in economics at the New School for Social Research in New York.^[1] The Bronx is New York Citys northernmost borough. ... Santa Fe (Spanish for holy faith) or Santa Fé (Portuguese) is the name of a number of places in the world: United States of America: Santa Fe, the state capital of New Mexico Santa Fe, Florida Santa Fe, Missouri Santa Fe, Tennessee Santa Fe, Texas Rancho Santa Fe, California It... The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California was an important liberal think tank from 1959 to 1969, declining in influence thereafter. ... For a quick link, please see the city of Santa Barbara, California. ... New School University is an institute of higher learning in New York City. ...

In 1974, he became a national committee member of the National Caucus of Labor Committees, part of the LaRouche movement. He edited their magazine, The Campaigner, and co-founded and edited Fidelio, another LaRouche movement publication. Defunct California Proposition 64 North American Labour Party Party for the Commonwealth of Canada Parti pour la république du Canada U.S. Labor Party The National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) is a political cadre organization in the United States founded and controlled by political activist Lyndon LaRouche, who... Fidelio (Op. ...

He became an editor at the American Institute of Physics and John Wiley and Sons, before leaving to found World Composition Services in 1978.^[1] The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a professional body representing American physicists and publishing physics related journals. ... John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ...

He directed amateur theater, specializing in Shakespeare, and taught classes in poetry and drama.^[1]

Death

Kronberg died after jumping from the Waxpool Road overpass in Sterling at 10:30 a.m. onto the northbound lanes of Route 28. ^[3] A spokesman for the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said the death was an apparent suicide.^[1]

Nicholas Benton has suggested in the Falls Church News-Press that pressure from within the LaRouche movement, which is regarded as a political cult,^[4][5][6] played a role in his death. Benton writes that the LaRouche movement's "morning briefing"^[2] on the day of his death attacked Kronberg's printing company and suggested that Baby Boomers within LaRouche's ranks commit suicide. According to Benton, after calling the print shop "among the worst" of the baby boomer generation, the briefing said: "the Boomers will be scared into becoming human, because you’re the real world, and they're not. Unless they want to commit suicide."^[2][3][7] Benton writes that the morning briefing is considered "authoritative" within the LaRouche movement.^[2] This article is becoming very long. ... A baby boomer is someone who was born during a period of increased birth rates, or baby boom, and the term is particularly applied to those born during the post-World War II period of increased birth rates. ...

Kronberg's printing business was in arrears with its tax payments, including employee withholding. According to Benton, the financial problems were attributable to lack of payment from the LaRouche movement for printing jobs.^[2]

Notes

Further reading

• Website set up in honor of Kenneth Kronberg
• Terry Kirkby. "The Lost Boy", The Independent, August 28, 2003.
• Dennis King. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, Doubleday, 1999.
• John Mintz. "Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right", The Washington Post, 1985.
• Hugh Muir. "British student did not commit suicide", The Guardian, November 5, 2003.
• Mark Townsend and Jamie Doward. "New evidence shows 'suicide' student was beaten to death", The Observer, March 25, 2007.
• April Witt. "No Joke", The Washington Post, October 24, 2004.