After the electoral success of the Pan-German League (Alldeutsche Vereinigung) in the 1901 Imperial Council elections, there was a split between party leader Georg von Schönerer and the moderate Karl Hermann Wolf.
Although von Schönerer placed racist and anti-Semitic ideology at the center of his politics and was strongly opposed to the Habsburg Monarchy and the Catholic Church, for Wolf and many other supporters of the Pan-German League, the German-Czech national conflict was the priority.
For example, five members of the Moravian Regional Assembly joined the new party.
While the Free Pan-German Party continued to represent a völkisch polity of German nationality, their anti-Semitic attitude was more relaxed, and the destruction of the Habsburg monarchy was no longer openly demanded.
Rather, the Free Pan-German Party saw itself as representing the interests of the German-speaking people in the Habsburg Monarchy, and therefore did not shy away from soliciting Jewish votes.