The Deutscher Verband was a coalition of right-leaning German-speaking political parties that was formed in South Tyrol in 1919 after the region was annexed by Italy.
It was a merger of the Catholic Tiroler Volkspartei and the national liberal Deutschfreiheitliche Partei.
The German-speaking Social Democrats joined with the Italian Socialist Party.
The most important press organ of the DV, until its prohibition, was the Tiroler (after 1923, Der Landsmann).
After 1945, the political tradition of the DV was continued by the South Tyrolean People's Party, which had the same leaders, and also used the edelweiss as its election symbol.