Career
Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense-Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918. He received a deferment during World War I because he had broken one of his feet while skiing. He was a leading pacifist before the Anschluss and after World World War World War II His body was never located.
Hans Thirring served as assistant, professor, and head of the institute for theoretical physics of the University of Vienna until his forced retirement in 1938 after the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.
After the end of World World War II, he was reinstated and became dean of the philosophical faculty in the years 1946-1947.