Otto Haas (industrialist)

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Otto Haas (born March 15, 1872 in Stuttgart , † January 2, 1960 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Otto Haas, son of the railway clerk David Haas (1837-1883) and his Altshausen- born wife Louise Haas nee Stierle (1846-1927), an apprentice at the Königlich Württembergische Hofbank in Stuttgart, was subsequently as a bank clerk at the chemical factory Siegle & Co. worked in Stuttgart before he founded the Röhm & Haas chemical factory in Esslingen am Neckar in 1907 together with his friend, the chemist Otto Röhm , who had previously worked for the Stuttgart gas works .

With the successful manufacture of the product Oropon , a product based on the enzymes of the pancreatic gland of cattle and pigs, which was used for staining leather , they expanded the company, relocated the headquarters to Darmstadt and set up branches abroad. In addition to oropon, plastics and pesticides were also produced.

The most important of these branches in Philadelphia was converted into the independent company Rohm and Haas in 1917, during the First World War ; they continued to work with the parent plant until the outbreak of World War II . Under the management of Otto Haas, which he had held since 1909, the company developed into one of the most important chemical plants in the USA, which was later run by his sons F. Otto and John.

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SURNAME Haas, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur in the chemical industry
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1960
Place of death Philadelphia , Pennsylvania