Hans Knirsch

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Hans Knirsch

Hans Knirsch (born September 14, 1877 in Triebendorf , Moravia , † December 6, 1933 in Dux ) was a German national politician in Austria and Czechoslovakia .

Hans Knirsch is one of the founders of the German labor movement in Austria, from which the German National Socialist Workers' Party emerged . From 1912 Knirsch was chairman of the German Workers' Party in Austria-Hungary, which he co-founded in 1903, and from 1911 to 1918 he was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives ( 12th legislative period ) and then a member of the Provisional National Assembly .

He was instrumental in building up the party, mainly using "popular sport" for his own purposes. In 1919 he received a mandate from the German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP) in the parliament of the newly founded Czechoslovakia , of which he was party leader until 1928. In 1926 he went on a lecture tour to the USA to solicit support and donations in front of circles of German emigrants. After the National Socialists came to power in Berlin , he took part in the Potsdam Day. During several personal visits to Hitler in Berlin, he tried in vain to convince him of a quick solution to the Sudeten German question.

However, when in 1933 his party disbanded itself after the " Volkssport " organization was banned in order to forestall a threatening ban on DNSAP by the Czechoslovak authorities, he was charged with high treason against the Czechoslovak Republic. He died on December 6, 1933 while fleeing from his arrest by the Czechoslovak police.

In the period from 1938 to 1946 streets in many cities, including a. his name in Berlin, Dresden and Leitmeritz .

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SURNAME Knirsch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian and Czechoslovak German national politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Triebendorf , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1933
Place of death Dux