German People's Party (Austria)

German People's Party
Deutsche Volkspartei
LeaderOtto Steinwender[1]
FoundedJune 1896[1]
Dissolved1920
Split fromGerman National Party [de][1]
Succeeded byGreater German People's Party (Austria)
German National Party (Czechoslovakia)[2]
IdeologyGerman nationalism
National affiliationDeutscher Nationalverband

The German People's Party (German: 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 German National Party [de] and was led by Otto Steinwender.

History

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.

References

  1. ^ a b c Robert S. Wistrich (1999) Die Juden Wiens im Zeitalter Kaiser Franz Josephs, p177 ISBN 3-20598-342-4
  2. ^ Jaroslav Šebek [cs] (2005) Politické strany německé menšiny, Německá nacionální strana. In: Politické strany. Vývoj politických stran a hnutí v českých zemích a Československu 1861-2004., p872 ISBN 80-7239-178-X
  3. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p209 ISBN 9783832956097
  4. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p208