Deputy Haase, Chairman of the Peoples' Commissaries, addressing the crowd on Tempelhofer Feld (1918)
Deputy Haase, Chairman of the Peoples' Commissaries, addressing the crowd on Tempelhofer Feld (1918)
Haase speaking at funeral of revolutionary victims, Berlin, November 1918. In this photograph, Hugo Haase (1863-1919) is standing on a platform addressing a crowd at the funeral of the victims of the Berlin Revolution of 9 November 1918. Unlike the other photographs of the funeral, the crowd at this point appears almost exclusively male and military. Haase, a co-founder of the Independent Social Democratic Party, was a joint chairman of the Council of People's Commissioners which was set up by the revolution.
Taken from the National Library of Scotland: https://digital.nls.uk/74549648