Maximilian Felix Ernst Harden

German journalist
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Also known as: Felix Ernst Witkowski
Quick Facts
Original name:
Felix Ernst Witkowski
Born:
Oct. 20, 1861, Berlin
Died:
Oct. 30, 1927, Montana-Vermala, Valais, Switz. (aged 66)

Maximilian Felix Ernst Harden (born Oct. 20, 1861, Berlin—died Oct. 30, 1927, Montana-Vermala, Valais, Switz.) was a political journalist, a spokesman for extreme German nationalism before and during World War I and a radical socialist after Germany’s defeat. Initially an actor, Harden founded and edited the weekly Die Zukunft (1892–1923; “The Future”), which attained great influence by tasteless methods. Calling war a “bracing educational experience,” Harden was enraged when Germany’s abortive challenge (1905–06) to French hegemony over nominally independent Morocco failed to result in war. Using evidence supplied by the privy councillor, Friedrich von Holstein, he published (1906) accusations of ...(100 of 163 words)