[6][7] It was founded on 28 September 2013 by former NPD officials, and activists from the banned Free Network South.

[13] A group of people bearing Der Dritte Weg flags marched in through a town in Saxony on 1 May 2019, the day before the Jewish remembrance of the Holocaust, carrying a banner saying "Social justice instead of criminal foreigners".

The Central Council of Jews said that the state government should ban such marches if it were serious about tackling right-wing extremism.

[15][16][17] In October 2024, party member Andreas Münzhuber slipped to his death while climbing Hitler's favourite mountain Untersberg.

[18][19] The party is registered at the Federal Returning Office as "DER DRITTE WEG" short-form: "III.

[28] As of 2021, the majority of the approximately 650 full and supporting members[29] were active in the federal states of Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony,[30] and since 2019 also in NRW in the greater Cologne-Düsseldorf area.

[2][3][9][23] According to the constitutional protection report of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the party is mainly financed by donations and contributions in 2019.