German People's Party | |
Native Name: | Deutsche Volkspartei |
Leader1 Title: | Leader |
Leader1 Name: | Otto Steinwender[1] |
Foundation: | June 1896 |
Dissolution: | 1920 |
Successor: | (Austria) German National Party (Czechoslovakia)[2] |
Ideology: | German nationalism |
National: | Deutscher Nationalverband |
Country: | Austria |
The German People's Party (de|Deutsche Volkspartei) was a political party of the German-speaking group in the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was founded in 1896 as a successor to the and was led by Otto Steinwender.
In the 1907 elections the party contested seats within the Austrian part of Cisleithania, receiving 2.8% of the Austrian vote. Its vote share fell to 1.6% in the 1911 elections.[3]
After World War I the party contested the 1919 Constitutional Assembly elections, in which it received 2% of the national vote and won two seats.[4] The following year the party merged into the Greater German People's Party.