Queer Places:
Ohlsdorfer Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany, Plot BM59 (297-298) gemeinsam mit W. D. Schultz

Kurt Hiller (17 August 1885, Berlin – 1 October 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist of high stylistic originality and a political (namely pacifist) journalist from a Jewish family. A socialist, 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.

Hiller was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 following the Nazi seizure of power and was severely beaten before his release in August 1933.^[1] After spending some time in a concentration camp Hiller fled fleeing to Prague later in 1934, and then to London in 1938. In 1955, he returned to Germany, where he lived and wrote in Hamburg until his death.^[2]

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Hiller