Career
After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he led the original party in Bohemia, called the Sudeten German National Socialist Party. Together with Rudolf Jung and Hans Krebs, he was one of the original core of National Socialists that remained in the Nazi Party after 1933. Hans Knirsch became a Geschäftsführer, or managing leader, of the Mährisch-Trübauer Verband in 1901.
The effort failed, as the proposed name was felt to be too reminiscent of the Czechoslovakian National Social Party Following his arrest for the failed Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler went on a hunger strike.
lieutenant was Hans Knirsch who talked Hitler out of his depression and convinced him to resume eating. Aus der Geschichte der deutschen nationalsozialistischen Arbeiterbewegung Altösterreichs und der Tschechoslowakei, (Aussig, 1932).