Kurt Hiller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Hiller https://isni.org/isni/0000000114433390 https://viaf.org/viaf/47553949/ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66458 A Jewish German essayist of high stylistic originality and a political (namely pacifist) journalist from a Jewish family. An openly gay communist, he was deeply influenced by Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer, despising the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel, which made him quite unpopular with Marxists. Hiller was also an influential writer in the early German gay rights movement in the first two decades of the 20th century. In 1929, Hiller took over as chairman of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee from fellow gay activist Magnus Hirschfeld.