1. Hugo Haase was a German socialist politician, jurist and pacifist.
17 Facts About Hugo Haase
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Hugo Haase was born on 29 September 1863 in Allenstein, East Prussia, Germany, the son of Jewish shoemaker and small businessman, Nathan Haase, and his wife Pauline.
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Hugo Haase was the first socialist lawyer in East Prussia and took on clients mainly from the lower classes, journalists and socialist functionaries.
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In 1894, Hugo Haase became the first Social Democrat in the municipal parliament of Konigsberg.
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In 1907, Hugo Haase was counsel for Karl Liebknecht who had been charged with high treason for publishing his pamphlet Militarismus und Antimilitarismus.
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Hugo Haase belonged to the so-called "revisionist" wing of the party, which in contrast to the Marxists, supported gradual reforms and no longer saw the best path to social and political change in revolution.
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In 1911, he became SPD chairman along with August Bebel, in 1912 Hugo Haase was reelected to the Reichstag and, together with Philipp Scheidemann, became chairman of the SPD Reichstag group.
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In July 1914, Hugo Haase organized anti-war rallies for the SPD.
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Hugo Haase read the party's statement that "we will not abandon the Fatherland in the hour of danger".
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Hugo Haase was forced to resign as faction leader in 1915.
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Hugo Haase was forced to resign as party chairman of the SPD.
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Hugo Haase then founded and led the Socialist Working Group.
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Hugo Haase thus distanced himself from those in the USPD who were seeking to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat through powerful soldiers' and workers' councils.
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On 8 October 1919, immediately prior to his death Hugo Haase was walking into the Reichstag with the intention of exposing an alliance between Ebert and Rudiger Von der Goltz, a Freikorps general active in the Baltic.
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Hugo Haase was shot by Johann Voss as he entered the building.
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Hugo Haase is commemorated at the Memorial to the Socialists in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery, Berlin.
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Hugo Haase had been married to Thea, with whom he had a son Ernest, daughter Gertrude, and daughter Hilde.