Wilhelm Herzog

Wilhelm Herzog (12 January 1884 in Berlin – 4 April 1960 in Munich), alias Julian Sorel, René Kestner and Junius III, was a German publisher, historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, and pacifist.

Life He studied economics, Germanistics and history of art in Berlin. After publishing works about Lichtenstein (1905) and Heinrich von Kleist (1907), he revived with Paul Cassirer the literary magazine Pan in 1910/1911 and became its editor. From 1914 until its closure by the German authorities in 1915 and from 1918 to 1929 he wrote for the , a journal advocating global peace and campaigning for a party of intellectuals.

As the secretary and right-hand man of Kurt Eisner, Herzog authored the official proclamation of the People's State of Bavaria on 8 November 1918. He left Switzerland and moved permanently to Munich in the same year. ), Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bertrand Russell, Albert Schweitzer, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky.

Personal life From 1915 to 1921 he was married to German film actress Erna Morena (1885–1962) and had one daughter with her.

Works Rund um den Staatsanwalt (1923) Die Affäre Dreyfus (1928, 1929) Der Kampf einer Republik (1933) Panama (1931, changed in 1950) Hymnen und Pamphlete (1939) Kritische Enzyklopädie (1949) Menschen, denen ich begegnete (1959)