Kurt Hiller

Kurt Hiller (17 August 1885, Berlin – 1 October 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist, lawyer, and expressionist poet.

[2][3] A 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.

[4] Hiller was also an influential writer in the early German gay rights movement in the first two decades of the 20th century.

Hiller was arrested by the Gestapo in March 1933 following the Nazi seizure of power and was severely beaten before his release in August 1933.

[1] He fled to Prague immediately after his release, and met his partner Walter D. Schultz [de] (a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany) there while in exile.