It had links with the German Social Party, the Pan-German League and the Reich Citizens' Council.
[1] The DHV was directed against social democracy,[2] had an anti-democratic and anti-liberal ideology and supported the concept of a conservative revolution.
To prevent the spread of social democratic thoughts, it propagated patriotic and Völkisch mentality.
[4] It is considered a proto-fascist or pre-fascist movement,[5] and was vocally anti-feminist.
[8] It cooperated with the Nazi Party and sought to unite Nazism and political Catholicism together.