German People's Party (Austria)

The German People's Party (German: Deutsche Volkspartei) was a political party of the German-speaking group in the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

It was founded in 1896 as a successor to the German National Party [de] and was led by Otto Steinwender.

In the 1907 elections the party contested seats within the Austrian part of Cisleithania, receiving 2.8% of the Austrian vote.

Its vote share fell to 1.6% in the 1911 elections.

[3] After World War I the party contested the 1919 Constitutional Assembly elections, in which it received 2% of the national vote and won two seats.