Jorg Haas (1893-1925) was a German soldier and nationalist who served in the Freikorps following World War I.
Biography[]
Jorg Haas was born in Rüthen, Westphalia, German Empire in 1893. The son of a Protestant schoolteacher and a Catholic nurse, he trained as a brick mason before volunteering for the Imperial German Army at the start of World War I. He was wounded at the Battle of Mons in 1914 and at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and he was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery shown during the First Battle of Cambrai. Upon demobilization at the end of the war, Haas joined the Freikorps and participated in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. Afterwards, Haas found work as a policeman in Paderborn, where he was shot dead by a communist in 1925.