Hans Knirsch

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

Hans Knirsch one of the founders of the German nationalist labor movement in Austria, from which emerged the German National Socialist Workers Party. Since 1912 was crunch Chairman in 1903 he co-founded German Workers' Party in Austria -Hungary and from 1911 to 1918 he was a deputy in the Austrian parliament.

He was instrumental in the party structure, in which he used mainly the "national sport " for his purposes. In 1919 he received a mandate from the German National Socialist Workers Party, whose party he chaired until 1928 in the parliament of the newly formed Czechoslovakia. As, however, in 1933 his party "national sport " organization dissolved itself after the ban of to forestall an impending ban at the same time so that the DNSAP by the Czechoslovak authorities, he saw his life's work failed and resigned.