Herbert Hahn – Rudolf Steiner, as I Knew Him

It touched me (Herbert Hahn) deeply when – it was already after the death of Rudolf Steiner – the statement of a well-known journalist appeared in the press. It was the French journalist Jules Sauerwein. One day they asked him, who had traveled all over the world and had come into contact with hundreds of prominent contemporaries, which personality had impressed him the most. He did not hesitate for a moment with his answer: 'Of all the kings, monarchs, presidents, ministers, scholars, artists, writers and prominent figures in business whom I have come to know in the course of the decades of my profession, none has made such a deep impression on me as the German^* philosopher Rudolf Steiner.'

^* Rudolf Steiner was Austrian, not German