Peter Hass

This article deals with the politician Peter Hass. For other people see Peter Haas .

Peter Hass (born August 21, 1903 in Flensburg , † January 28, 1975 in Nacka , Sweden ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Peter Hass comes from a social democratic working class family. His father, a shipyard worker, had already joined the Social Democratic Party in 1897 and worked for it as a district leader. Peter Hass attended elementary school and trained as a blacksmith and file cutter from 1918 to 1921 . He later worked as a shipyard worker and took over functions on the works council. Hass had already joined the SPD and the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV) in 1919 . In 1930 he became unemployed in the wake of the global economic crisis . In 1933 he won a seat in the Hamburg parliament and was a member of the SPD parliamentary group. From this faction he resigned on May 2, 1933 with several other trade unionists. He was the only one who did not join the newly formed union faction afterwards .

During National Socialism he was active in the resistance together with his brother Otto Hass. In 1933 his brother had taken over the management of the Reichsbannergruppe, which was already illegal at the time, from Otto Grot . Peter Hass himself stated that he was an “illegal SPD functionary” and acted as a liaison and courier to the foreign secretariat in Copenhagen. During this time he often went to Denmark. Wilhelm Häussler was one of his most important confidants in Hamburg .

After Wilhelm Häußler was arrested on June 13, 1936, the Hass brothers immediately went underground and went into exile in Denmark on June 15 , where he worked as a blacksmith at a shipyard in Elsinore from 1936 to April 1940. Peter Hass was sentenced to death in absentia by the Nazi regime in 1937 for high treason and treason . In 1938, after two years of pre- trial detention , Wilhelm Häußler passed all the “guilt” on to Peter Hass and his brother. The purpose of this agreed procedure was to incriminate those party comrades who were safe in order to exonerate the accused. After the occupation of Denmark by the National Socialists in April 1940, Peter Hass fled to Sweden , where he lived until early 1946. In Sweden, Peter Hass was active in exile groups in trade unions that offered resistance outside the German Reich.

In February 1946 he returned to Germany. In October of that year he was elected to the first freely elected citizenship of the Hanseatic city and sat there for his party until his early retirement on July 31, 1948. During this time, in addition to his parliamentary activities, he was first secretary of the workers' welfare in Hamburg. In April 1949 he changed his place of residence and returned to Sweden, where he also spent his old age.

literature

• Walter Tormin: The history of the SPD in Hamburg 1945 to 1950 , [Forum Zeitgeschichte Volume 4], results publishing house, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3879160287 , (page 378, annotated register of persons)
• Erich Lüth: The Hamburg citizenship 1946-1971, reconstruction and new building. Verlag Conrad Kayser, Hamburg 1971, p. 199 (list of representatives).
• Eberhard Podzuweit: Peter Hass (1903–1975). In: Siegfried Mielke , Stefan Heinz (eds.) With the collaboration of Julia Pietsch: Emigrated metal trade unionists in the fight against the Nazi regime (= trade unionists under National Socialism. Persecution - Resistance - Emigration. Volume 3). Metropol, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86331-210-7 , pp. 552-560.
• SPD Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. Hamburg Social Democrats in Persecution and Resistance 1933–1945. Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3833006374 , p. 252 and in the article on Häußler p. 71.

Web links

• exil-archiv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The surname is partly written hatred or hatred.
2. ^ SPD Hamburg: For freedom and democracy. P. 72.
3. ↑ Peter Haß's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)