Max Weber was arguably the most important sociologist in Germany at that time, and more than anyone else he connected various intellectual and political worlds during the war; he played a central role in the intellectual debates on the state, German culture, and —above all— the need for political reform during WWI; he was also the only one who dared to openly condemn German autocracy as well as the Kaiser for his role in the war, and he was deeply admired by young intellectuals and members of the academic student movement for his courage, charisma and open mindedness (although he was very critical of youth and radicalism at the same time); moreover, in WWI he wrote his most famous works, for example those on the separation of politics and “Wissenschaft”; Weber’s position and ideas, perhaps more than those of anyone else in wartime Germany, are essential to understand the wartime debates on the changing role of ‘the intellectual’ in Germany and on the transformation of the relation between culture and politics. He died in 1920. 1914-1918 online pays attention to Alfred, his brother, but in public debates Max was much more present and influential.