The most crucial party activists were Hans Knirsch, Hans Krebs, Adam Fahrner, Rudolf Jung and Josef Patzel.
[6] Unlike the successive sister party in Austria, which only played a marginal role in Austrian politics, the Czechoslovak branch attracted a considerable number of votes because of the large Sudeten German minority in Czechoslovakia.
In elections, it worked together with the Deutsche Nationalpartei (DNP).
The party advocated cultural and territorial autonomy and anti-clericalism.
[8][9] In October 1933, the Czechoslovak government banned it for its anti-state activities.