[3] The KdP originated in 1927 as the Karpathendeutsche Volksgemeinschaft (KDV, 'Carpathian German Ethnic Community'), founded by men like Dr. Roland Steinacker (a professor in Theology from Bratislava), the Sudeten German industrialist Karl Manouschek, Dr. Samuel Früwirt, Carl Eugen Schmidt (a Protestant pastor) and the engineer Franz Karmasin.

[10][11] A key concern of the founders of the KdP was to steer Germans in Slovakia away from Magyar-dominated parties.

[3] The alliance obtained 16,922 votes in the areas of the Carpathian Germans (Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus').

[19] One KdP candidate was elected, Siegmund Keil who contested a Senate seat in the Nové Zámky 11th electoral district.

[3] In the Czechoslovak National Assembly SdP and KdP formed joint factions in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

[6] Many of the new adherents of KdP had returned from German-language technical schools in Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia or the German University in Prague.

[6] KdP was able to build a relatively strong presence in central Slovakia and managed to gain a role amongst younger generation in Zips as well.

[12] However the older generation of Zipser Germans and communists sympathizers remained sceptical of Karmasin and his party.