8-C-10 (Reg. 335) (Ehrengrab)). The British historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote: Harden was certainly the most brilliant political writer during the reign of Wilhelm II. His paper, Die Zukunft, had a unique influence despite its small circulation. But Harden's spirit was essential critical and destructive. He always took up men when they were down-Bismarck after his fall and Holstein after his resignation. Equally he denounced those were up-Wilhelm II when in power, and even Ebert. His outstanding achievement was to hound Eulenburg from public life-not much to be really proud of. In international affairs, he swung from one extreme to another: at one time a Big Navy man, later an advocate of a naval agreement. At the beginning of the First World War he was a violent annexationist, towards its end a Wilsonian democrat and internationalist. He remained constant only in his high opinion of himself and contempt for everybody else. See also Harden–Eulenburg Affair References Further reading Norman Domeier: The Eulenburg Affair. A Cultural History of Politics in Imperial Germany (German History in Context 1), New York 2015, . External links Maximilian Harden, Krieg und Friede, Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1918. "The Controversy of Zion", Geoffrey Wheatcroft, 1996, ; pp. 203–4 deal with Harden Journalists from Berlin German male journalists 19th-century German journalists 19th-century German male writers 20th-century German journalists German people of Jewish descent Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism 1861 births 1927 deaths Lutheran pacifists Jewish German writers Französisches Gymnasium Berlin alumni German newspaper founders German newspaper publishers (people)