This status was preceded by internal directional struggles from the 2000s onwards, in which the German nationalistic fraternities prevailed.

[2] In 1881, the "General Deputies Convent" (“Allgemeiner Deputierten-Convent”) was founded by 35 fraternities in Eisenach, renamed "German Burschenschaft" in 1902.

In addition, many Burschenschafter were against the first German Republic, the so-called Weimarer Republik and they scattered to accept the defeat in the First World War.

[6] In 2014 the executive committee of German Social Democratic Party SPD made a "incompatibility decision".

SPD reacted to the ongoing radicalization of DB and the "increasingly nationalist and Greater German program".

The newspaper Die Tageszeitung wrote in 2018, that for a long time, DB had seen itself as "nonpartisan - from the CDU / CSU on the Republicans to the NPD".