[5] At the federal elections at the time, the 5% hurdle applied only to the states, not nationwide — in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and NRW the party remained under 2%, but in Lower Saxony, it received 8.1% of the vote, that entitled it to five seats;[2] its deputies were Dorls, Rössler/Richter, Adolf von Thadden, Heinz Frommhold (1906–1979) and Herwart Miessner (1911–2002).
[10] The DRP did however gain one deputy when the Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung (a group of disparate figures who supported the demagogic Munich lawyer Alfred Loritz) disintegrated in the early 1950s.
Although effectively defunct, the DRP became the subject of a report produced by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany in the context of the banning of the SRP in 1952.
The report claimed that the DRP had actively tried to organize members of earlier right-wing groups, but no action ensued, as the party had ceased to exist.
[13] A few members who had not joined the Deutsche Reichspartei continued as "National Rightists" (Nationale Rechte) and finally aligned themselves with the Free Democratic Party in 1954.