1908 ca, BERLIN, GERMANY : The german journalist and polemist MAXIMILIAN HARDEN (born Felix Ernst Witkowski, 1861 - 1927). Initially a monarchist, Harden became a fierce critic of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his entourage around Prince Philip of Eulenburg and Kuno von Moltke. His public accusations of homosexual behaviour - according to Paragraph 175 a criminal offence at that time - from 1906 on led to numerous trials and did sustained damage to the reputation of the ruling House of Hohenzollern and the German jurisdiction. From 1892 to 1923 Harden published the journal Die Zukunft (The Future) in Berlin.