It was organised on the Hitler-created model, with a paramilitary system in which the cadres were named by superior hierarchical organs.
It ran three official newspapers: Der Stürmer (Timișoara), Ost-deutscher beobachter (Sibiu) and Sachsenburg (Brașov).
In its programme of 1935, the PPGR asked for the 1923 Constitution to be respected, as well as for cultural autonomy for the local German community.
It adopted an intransigent attitude toward the country's governments, disavowing collaboration and pursuing a policy of confrontation toward them.
A veritable fifth column for the Reich, it was never very popular, gaining under 1% of the vote at the 1937 election despite Germans forming over 4% of the population.