Philipp de Haas

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Philipp de Haas (born March 6, 1884 in Pyrmont ; died April 16, 1935 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German rabbi who held the post of Oldenburg regional rabbi from 1929 to 1935 .

Life

The son of Markus de Haas attended grammar school in Halberstadt and from 1902 to 1909 the Jewish-theological seminar in Breslau , where he passed the rabbinate examination in 1910. He also studied at the University of Breslau from 1902 to 1905 and at the University of Strasbourg from 1905 to 1906. There, his doctorate he became Dr. phil. From 1910 he officiated first as the second rabbi in Poznan , then as rabbi in Katowice . After this city was ceded to Poland in 1920, he did not want to stay there, applied for the position of regional rabbi in Oldenburg and was elected in 1920. Under him, the legal relationships with the state were reorganized and the constitution of the Jewish communities was reorganized through the law on the authorization of the Jewish religious society in the Oldenburg region to levy taxes of March 28, 1927 and through the new community regulations for the synagogue communities and the regional community dated April 2, 1924. The organization remained unchanged, but the synagogue parish councils and the state parish council were expanded. A new state committee was created and the disciplinary procedure was regulated. The state parish and the synagogue parishes have now become corporations under public law . However, Haas did not succeed in getting help from the ministry for the troubled financial situation of the communities. The situation worsened when in 1932 the National Socialist government stopped paying the state subsidies that had been granted since 1876 to cover the costs of the Jewish cult. Haas then lowered his salary and negotiated that the Oldenburg Jewish state community could join the Prussian state association of Jewish communities , which then financed the state community almost entirely. He witnessed the increasing persecution of the Jews after the Nazis came to power in the Third Reich , for example the boycott of April 1, 1933. His death in 1935 saved him from further persecution. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Oldenburg .

family

Haas was born with Anny, born in Dortmund . Markhof (* 1889) married. The couple had three children. His wife was able to emigrate in 1939 . A son and a daughter also emigrated to Rhodesia in 1939 . The daughter Mirjam married her father's successor, Leo Trepp (1913-2010), with whom she emigrated in 1938, first to England and later to the USA .

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personal data
SURNAME Haas, Philipp de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi, Oldenburg regional rabbi (1929–1935)
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyrmont
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1935
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)