Otto Rudolf Haas

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Otto Rudolf Haas (born December 13, 1878 in Cologne ; † January 23, 1956 in Sinn ) was a German steel industrialist.

Life

Born as the son of the factory owner Hermann Albert Haas (descendant of Johann Daniel Haas ), Otto Rudolf Haas graduated from high school in Cologne. He studied law at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin, and Bonn. In 1899 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen . He completed his legal clerkship in Cologne. In 1906 he became a government assessor. In 1908 he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. In 1916 he switched from civil service to the limited partnership W. Ernst Haas & Sohn, Neuhoffnungshütte , founded by his great-grandfather and grandfather , of which he took over as managing partner. The Neuhoffnungshütte near Sinn operated iron stone mining as well as an iron foundry with hearth and furnace production, puddling and rolling mill , horseshoe factory, bar drawing, wire drawing, wire pin factory and sheet metal and coppersmiths for boiler furnaces. Under his aegis, heating stoves for bunker systems and mortars (guns) were manufactured during World War II .

He lived in the family residence Villa Haas in Sinn for three decades and later in the company's own welfare house, which also housed the kindergarten and the apartment of the community nurse Dora Gerhard.

Family home Villa Haas in mind

Popularly known as "Uncle Otto", he was the "original" source of many anecdotes . His often bizarre jokes included z. For example, when designing the family crypt, he lay down in the grave intended for him to test whether it would suit him later.

Grave slab Otto Rudolf Haas in the old Sinner cemetery.

Haas was a board member of the local employers' association and president of the Dillenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1945 to 1948, which an ancestor, the hut owner Friedrich Haas, helped to found in 1865.

literature

  • Haas, Otto, Rudolf. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , pp. 625–626.
  • Ingrid Bauert-Keetmann, Helmut Prawitz: History of the Neuhoffnungshütte ironworks and the W. Ernst Haas + Sohn company in Sinn / Dillkreis , writing for the centenary, May 26, 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 129 , 566.
  2. ↑ Otto Renkhoff: Nassauische Biographie, pp. 261 + 262, ISBN 3-922244-90-4
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 130 , 543.
  4. ^ Klaus F. Müller: Park and Villa Haas - Historicism, Art and Lifestyle . Edition Winterwork, Borsdorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-86468-160-8 , pp. 56–59.
  5. ↑ S. Boikat, K. Scharf: The founding fathers were clammy , Herborner Tageblatt of February 6, 2015, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Otto Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German steel industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1956
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