leadership thus was forced to steer a more leftist course than they would otherwise have chosen if left to their own devices. It also made their job of feeding the population, keeping up law and order and decommissioning the huge war-time army whilst replacing the Empire with a republic harder by threatening to antagonize the mostly conservative civil service and, in particular, the leadership of the military. The Haase-led USPD achieved 7% of the vote for the National Assembly on 19 January 1919. Death On 8 October 1919, immediately prior to his death Haase was walking into the Reichstag with the intention of exposing an alliance between Ebert and Rüdiger Von der Goltz, a Freikorps general active in the Baltic. He was shot by Johann Voss as he entered the building. Voss was declared insane within two days and committed to a mental asylum. Some left wing activists suggested that he was a paid assassin. Haase was severely injured and died on 7 November. Haase is buried on the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in Berlin. Hugo Haase had been married to Thea (née Lichtenstein), with whom he had a son Ernest, daughter Gertrude, and daughter Hilde. See also List of peace activists References External links Hugo Haase Imperialism and Arbitration Courts 1863 births 1919 deaths People from Olsztyn People from the Province of Prussia Jewish German politicians Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Independent Social Democratic Party politicians Members of the Council of the People's Deputies Members of the 10th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 11th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire Members of the Weimar National Assembly German jurists German pacifists Jewish socialists Jewish pacifists German anti–World War I activists Assassinated German politicians Deaths by firearm in Germany