[4] Ideologically modelled on the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), and espousing a pan-Germanic current,[3] many members of the party, and notably the founder and first leader Adolf Egeberg had organisational and personal ties to the NSDAP and the SS.
[5] Founded as a Nazi "cell" in 1930,[6] the party gained financing from Eugen Nielsen, publisher of Fronten, from 1932 until a schism in 1934 due to conflict over Nielsen's primarily anti-Masonic focus, with the party seeking to develop its national socialist ideology.
[7] The party had around a thousand members at its height, but was quickly overshadowed by Nasjonal Samling (NS), which was founded by Vidkun Quisling in May 1933.
[1] The surge in the NNSAP had reportedly played a key role in pushing forward the formation of Nasjonal Samling itself, because Egeberg had allowed Walter Fürst to use the NNSAP's development and threats of contesting the 1933 parliamentary election as pressure against Quisling (then a member of the Farmers' Party), who initially hesitated to form a new party.
[3] Despite being modelled on the NSDAP, the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway has been described as a relatively loosely organised association.