!!!Großdeutsche Volkspartei

Grossdeutsche Volkspartei (Pan-German People's Party): following the 
elections of 1911, in 1918 there were 102 German-nationalist and 
German-liberal delegates to the "Provisional National Assembly for 
German-Austria" (along with 72 Christian Socialists and 42 
Socialists); after the elections for a constitutional assembly for 
German-Austria in 1919, however, their number decreased to 26. In 1919 
they formed themselves into the "Grossdeutsche Vereinigung" 
(Pan-German Association), without, at first, giving up their 
membership of different groups. On August 7 and 8, 1920, these groups 
were turned into the "Pan-German People's Party", a party of 
notabilities whose members were largely high-ranking officials and 
teachers at secondary schools. They insisted on the union with Germany 
(Weimar Republic), opposed materialism and clericalism and were 
largely anti-Semitic. From 1921-1932 the Pan-German People´s 
Party was in government (mostly in coalition with the Christian 
Socialists), and from 1922-1927 the vice chancellor came from its own 
ranks (F.  Dinghofer, H.  Schuerff, L.  Waber, J.  Straffner), also J. 
 Schober sympathised with the Pan-German People´s Party. After 
1927 many supporters joined the Heimwehr (paramilitary force), and 
after 1930 an increasing number of members changed over to the 
National Socialists. As from May 15, 1933, the Pan-German 
People´s Party acted in conjunction with the Nazis.

!Literature
I. Ackerl, Die Grossdeutsche Volkspartei 1920-1934, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1967.


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