Herta Haas

Herta Haas (29 March 1914 – 5 March 2010) was a World War II Yugoslav Partisan and the third wife of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the partisans and a future president of Yugoslavia. She was of German descent.

Early life and family Haas was born 1914 in Slovenska Bistrica, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. She was originally registered as Herta Gabriele Schindler and was the illegitimate daughter of Prisca Schindler (1888–1975) and the lawyer Heinrich Haas (1864–1925). After Heinrich Haas obtained a divorce from his wife, Elsa Demel Haas (1868–1951), he married Herta's mother in 1924. Her surname was legally changed to Haas in 1925. Haas spent much of the rest of World War II in Slovenia, away from Tito.

Haas reportedly met Tito only once after World War II during a visit to his presidential office in Belgrade. Following the end of the war, Haas worked at several Yugoslav government institutions. She remarried and gave birth to two daughters; one of them is researcher Cvetana Krstev. She lived much of her later life in relative obscurity.

Haas died in Belgrade, Serbia, on 5 March 2010 aged 95.