Dr. Hans Kneß

Hans Kneß becomes a full orphan with 15 years. He comes from his home town Marburg an der Drau to Innsbruck to the real school. In 1911 he joined the middle school compound Cimbria Innsbruck. After the Matura 1913, he began studying law at the University of Innsbruck and became a member of the Austrian Student Association in 1913. He must interrupt his studies in 1915 by convocation to the Kaiserschützenregiment No. 3 of the k. k. Landwehr. It is used on the front of the Dolomites until November 1918 (last grade of service Leutnant d. R.).

After the war he finished his studies and graduated in 1919 as a Doctor iuris. During his period of study, he has already been able to gain journalistic experience as a student at the “Tiroler Anzeigenr”. He leaves the legal career and becomes a journalist. He goes to South Tyrol and becomes editor of the daily “Der Landmann”, but is then declared from South Tyrol and goes as a correspondent of the Tyrolia publisher to Rome, where he is arrested in 1925 by the fascist police and deported to Innsbruck.

Tyrolia sends him to Vienna as a publishing director, where he is arrested in 1938 after the connection. After the release of detention, further work in Vienna is made impossible by the NS agents. He goes to Munich and becomes director of the Catholic publishing house “Kösel und Pustet”.

After the war, he returns to Innsbruck and becomes the managing director and in 1950 he becomes the editor-in-chief of the “Tiroler Nachrichten”. He is a press manager for South Tyrol for the ÖVP.