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'''Hans Knirsch''' ([[September 14]], [[1877]] - [[December 6]], [[1933]]) was a [[Moravia]]n activist for [[Austrian National Socialism]] who, after the breakup of the Austrian Hungarian Empire 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 (National Socialist)|Hans Krebs]], he was one of the original core of National Socialists that remained in the Nazi Party after l933. <sup>3</sup>

==Bio==
Hans Knirsch became a ''Gesch�ftsf�hrer'', a managing leader, of the [[M�hrisch-Tr�bauer 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 [[WWI]] was unsuccessful in getting the DAP to add the words "National Socialist" to their name. <sup>2</sup>

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. <sup>1</sup>

==Writings of Knirsch==
*''Aus der Geschichte der deutschen nationalsozialistischen Arbeiterbewegung Alt�sterreichs und der Tschechoslowakei'', (Aussig, l932).

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

[[Category:1877 births|Knirsch, Hans]]
[[Category:1933 deaths|Knirsch, Hans]]

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