Hans Haas

**Hans Haas** was the Patriarch of the German Mafia during the 80's. Infamous for his extortion of one of Norway’s oil rigs and famed due to his involvement in the escape of Juan Carlos Morales from Guantanamo Bay, Haas was a wealthy and licentious mob leader who enjoyed a luxurious and hedonistic lifestyle due to his massive wealth, he also possessed numerous connections in the criminal world thus granting him exceeding power and influence. He proclaimed himself to be the arch rival of Italian mobster and Don of the Vincenzo Mafia, Frank Vincenzo, who was considered to be the only one who could match Haas in wealth and power alongside Patriarchs Leonid Zhackarov of the Russian Mafia and Jacques De la Croix of the French Mafia known as the Serveurs de la Croix.

Unlike most of the other mob leaders, Haas was a celebrity and public persona since his cover was as an owner of a small drug company that he secretly used to buy illegal drugs and sell drugs from his enormous stockpile. He was notable for his tendency to wear an over amount of jewelry and always sporting an expensive white suit. Glamorous in public, however in the shadows he was a sociopathic murderer and callous, immoral person who sought after chaos and money, best exemplified when he ordered the massacre of an entire parade because someone there owed him cash. Over 300 people were killed and the incident left him reviled even by other mobsters who all had a semblance of a moral code.

After the supposed death of Don Frank Vincenzo, many criminal organizations looked at this as their chance to seize control in the Los Angeles area, such as the Killer’s Guild, Russian Mafia and Haas himself. Hans moved his crew in 1987 to Los Angeles and immediately began taking control over the area, but his newfound triumph would be short lived as in the same year he would be found dead in his high rise apartment in Los Angeles due to a drug overdose. After this, his mafia moved back to Germany and dissolved due to a lack of structure. A known drug user, Haas’ death was not met with surprise but after the taxonomy reports went missing and the doctor who performed the autopsy died in a helicopter crash, it lead to many theorizing that Haas had been murdered but the LAPD did not look into it. He was in fact murdered by Frank Vincenzo who was not dead and was preparing to return to the top of the criminal world, hence the death of Haas who was an obstacle in his scheme of revenge and conquest.

## Biography

### **Criminal Dynasty**

After inheriting his father’s earnings after his death from his multiple companies, Haas began developing connections in the criminal world of Germany and mid Europe by doing favors and loaning money to ringleaders of criminal gangs. He eventually managed to incorporate and weld their operations into a conglomerate operated and owned by Haas due to his increasing wealth. Employing the ringleaders and drug dealers across Germany, Haas essentially created a consortium of criminality that would be known as the German Mafia due to it being primarily compiled of Germanic individuals and their base of operations being located in Germany. By 1981 this syndicate would be made official and Haas would be recognized as the leader.

### **Mob boss**

Haas would establish his mafia as a major power in the criminal world throughout the 80s by making deals with Patriarch Leonid Zhackarov of the Russian Mafia and Jacques De la Croix of the Serveurs De la Croix and engaging in high profile extortions and drug trafficking. The only other mob boss who would not conduct business with Haas was the Italian Patriarch, Don Frank Vincenzo of the Vincenzo Mafia as he did not respect the German mob boss because he thought that everything was handed to him, from his inheritance of his father’s money to his ordinary upbringing. This caused a deep seated hatred on Haas’ part but also an infatuation with the Don as he was not used to being turned down and ignored by others. Vincenzo was also the only one considered to be wealthier and more powerful than Haas, this only added to Haas’ hatred and obsession with Vincenzo.

## Relationships

### **Family**

* Hans' father
* Hans' mother

### **Enemies**

* Vincenzo Mafia
	+ Frank Vincenzo