Hans Knirsch

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Hans Knirsch (September 14, 1877 – December 6, 1933) was a Moravian activist for Austrian National Socialism . After the breakup of the Austrian Hungarian Empire, he led the original mother party in Czechoslovakia, at that time in Bohemia called the Sudeten German National Socialist Party. With Rudolf Jung and Hans Krebs, he was one of the original core of National Socialists that remained in the Nazi Party after 1933.^[1]

[edit] Bio

Hans Knirsch became a Geschäftsführer, a managing leader, of the Mährisch-Trübauer Verband in 1901. He published an appeal which extolled the political unification of all Germans into one state, der alte Sehnsuchstraum der deutschen Demokraten ("the old nostalgic dream of the German democrats").

He was very active in several party congresses and before World War I was unsuccessful in getting the DAP to add the words "National Socialist" to their name.^[2]

When Adolf Hitler was jailed for the Beer Hall Putsch, he went on a hunger strike to starve himself to death. Hans Knirsch talked Hitler out of his depression and convinced him to end his hunger strike.^[3]

[edit] Writings of Knirsch

• Aus der Geschichte der deutschen nationalsozialistischen Arbeiterbewegung Altösterreichs und der Tschechoslowakei, (Aussig, 1932).

[edit] References

1. ^ Liberty or Equality, Von Kuenhelt-Leddihn, Christendom Press, Front Royal, VA, 1993. pg 254.
2. ^ Leftism Revisited, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Regnery Gateway, Washington, D.C., 1990. pp 147-148
3. ^ Why Hitler, The Genesis of the Nazi Reich, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Praeger, Westport, CT, 1996. pg 106