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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1891-06-10|birthplace=Vienna|birthcountry=Austria|death=1930-09-15|deathplace=Bordeaux|deathcountry=France}})<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Hans-Herzl/6000000007014376451
Hans's parents, although Jewish, did not believe in [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]], so he was not [[circumcised]] in accordance with the alleged [[Abrahamic covenant]].
== Hans's circumcision == Hans's father died when he was 13 and his mother was addicted to morphine, so he was placed in the custody of Zionist Jews in England who decided to have him [[circumcised]] at age 15,<ref name="suicide1930">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/the-tragic-story-of-herzls-family/2022/06/29/
|title=The Tragic Story Of Herzl’s Family
|date=2022-06-29
|accessdate=2024-02-19
}}</ref> which he deeply resented.<refname="jta1930">{{REFnews
|title=Hans Herzl, Son of Theodor Herzl, Commits Suicide After Funeral of Sister Paulina
|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/hans-herzl-son-of-theodor-herzl-commits-suicide-after-funeral-of-sister-paulina
|last=Anonymous
|first=
|init=
|format=
|quote=
}}</ref> Hans At the age of 20 he felt unable to form a true relationship with a woman. Perhaps it was treated by because of the [[Carl Gustav JungAdolescent and adult circumcision| Karl Jungcircumcision]] after his circumcision, after which he was able to flirt with girlsunderwent at the age of 15.<refname="shavit2000">{{REFnews
|title=The Doomed Dynasty
|url=https://archive.jewishagency.org/herzl/content/25465/
|format=
|quote=
}}</ref> Hans was treated by [[Carl Gustav Jung| Karl Jung]] after his circumcision, after which he was able to flirt with girls.<ref name="shavit2000"/>
He never was able to overcome the physical and psychic [[trauma]] of his circumcision. He never married, nor did he seem to have an occupation. According to Singer, "[h]e ultimately settled in London, where he earned a meager living translating his father’s writings, but the work was intermittent and he struggled financially all his life."<ref name="suicide1930" />
==Suicide==
His sister, Pauline, died at Bordeaux, France in 1930 when he was 39. After the funeral, Hans used a firearm to take his own life in his hotel room.<ref name="suicide1930" /> <ref name="jta1930" />
== Family ==
{{WikipediaQuote |title=Theodor Herzl |URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl#Family}}
[[Theodor Herzl]]'s daughter Paulina suffered from mental illness and drug addiction. She died in 1930 at the age of 40 of a heroin overdose. His only son Hans was given a secular upbringing and the Herzls refused to allow him to be circumcised.<ref name="Shalom 2009">{{REFbook
|last=Goldman
|first=Shalom
|title=Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews, & the Idea of the Promised Land
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibbL2ow7gYoC&pg=PA134
|publisher=UNC Press
|year=2009
|ISBN=978-0-807-83344-5
|page=134
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|last=Stewart
|init=D
|title=Theodor Herzl
|location=Garden City, New York
|publisher=Doubleday
|year=1974
|page=202
}}</ref> On Herzl's early death, after reportedly being pressured to do so by his Zionist caretakers, Hans, then a ward, submitted to circumcision on 29 May 1905;<ref name="Shalom 2009"/><ref>{{REFweb
|last=Goldman
|first=Shalom
|title=Theodor Herzl’s Cursed Children
|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/theodor-herzl-cursed-children
|website=Tablet
|date=2022-05-02
}}</ref><ref name="Sternberger">{{REFbook
|title=Princes Without a Home: Modern Zionism and the Strange Fate of Theodor Herzl's children
|last=Sternberger
|first=Ilse
|page=125
}}</ref> he subsequently converted,<ref>{{REFdocument
|title=Einstein on Theodor Herzl's Son, Hans' Conversion and Suicide
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203012058/http://www.shapell.org/manuscript.aspx?einstein-on-jewish-identity-assimilation-and-herzl-son-conversion-and-suicide
|archived=yes
|publisher=Shapell Manuscript Collection. SMF
|date=2013-12-03
}}</ref> resenting the way he had been persuaded to be [[circumcised]],<ref>{{REFjournal
|quote=He told the curious fact that he had not been circumcised at birth but had undergone circumcision when he was 13 while he was living in London. He declared he resented this, which, he said antagonized him against the synagogue.
|title=Hans Herzl, Son of Theodor Herzl, Commits Suicide After Funeral of Sister Paulina
|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/hans-herzl-son-of-theodor-herzl-commits-suicide-after-funeral-of-sister-paulina
|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency
|date=1930-09-18
}}</ref> and became successively a Baptist, then a Catholic, and flirted with other Protestant denominations. He sought a personal salvation for his own religious needs and a universal solution, as had his father, to Jewish suffering caused by [[antisemitism]]. Hans shot himself to death on the day of his sister Paulina's funeral; he was 39 years old.<ref>{{REFweb
|last=Spiro (Rabbi)
|first=Ken
|date=2002-02-02
|title=Crash Course in Jewish History Part 63 – Modern Zionism
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808104749/http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_63_-_Modern_Zionism.asp
|publisher=Aish HaTorah
|archived=yes
}}</ref>
Hans left a suicide note explaining his reasons.
{{Citation
|Text=A Jew remains a Jew, no matter how eagerly he may submit himself to the disciplines of his new religion, how humbly he may place the redeeming cross upon his shoulders for the sake of his former coreligionists, to save them from eternal damnation: a Jew remains a Jew ... I can't go on living. I have lost all trust in God. All my life I've tried to strive for the truth, and must admit today at the end of the road that there is nothing but disappointment. Tonight I have said Kaddish for my parents—and for myself, the last descendant of the family. There is nobody who will say Kaddish for me, who went out to find peace—and who may find peace soon ... My instinct has latterly gone all wrong, and I have made one of those irreparable mistakes, which stamp a whole life with failure. Then it is best to scrap it.<ref name="Sternberger"/>
|Author=Hans Herzl
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|title=Stephen Theodore Norman—the last descendant of Theodor Herzl
|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20110615054348/http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6909579/Stephen-Theodore-Norman-the-last.html
|archived=yes
|publisher=Manta
|website=Goliath.ecnext.com
}}</ref>
}}
==Burial==
Hans was buried in a Jewish cemetery at Bordeaux along with his sister Pauline in 1930.<ref name="suicide1930" /> However, in 2004 the Israeli government had the remains of Pauline and Hans exhumed and reburied in the national cemetery on [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mount-herzl Mount Herzl] near the grave of their honored father, [[Theodor Herzl]].<ref name="suicide1930" />
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Jonathon Conte]]
* [[Suicide]]
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