German Workers' Party (Austria-Hungary)
The German Workers' Party ( DAP ) was established on November 14, 1903 in Bohemia Usti nad Labem in Austria - Hungary by Ferdinand and Wilhelm Burschofsky preacher. In its original self, she was by Karl Hermann Wolf, a former supporters of Georg Schönerer, and Ferdinand Burschofsky as the representative of the German inhabitants of the monarchy, however, been especially by nationalist -minded workers created. The party program was heavily influenced by the ideas of Pan-German movement. Primarily, the party was German - nationalistic -oriented, while anti-clerical, anti-feudal, anti- liberal, anti-Marxist and increasingly anti -Semitic and racist, particularly anti-Slav. The aim was, in addition to protecting the interests of the German Austrians, especially in Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia, also a social improvement of the situation of the workers and their liberation from economic, political and cultural oppression.
The German Workers Party was from the beginning, in contrast to the Czech national movement, which in the imperial monarchy demanded as other groups more self-determination and independence from the government in Vienna. The representative of the party saw their task as increasingly in a combative and intolerant " racial struggle ". In the elections to the Imperial Parliament in 1911, the German Workers Party won three seats. As early as 1906 it had managed the collection in the Moravian Diet.
1904 was the first Nazi Party, the DAP held in Trautenau. The first chairman of the party was William preacher. His successor was Otto Kroy and Ferdinand Ertl. After the voluntary withdrawal from Ertl 1912 Hans Knirsch was elected Reich president of the party. 1918 Walter Riehl was, who had since 1909 member of the party and should be after the First World War, the leaders of several Nazi groups in Austria and as a lawyer in Schattendorf process the offenders from the ranks of the veterans association of German Austria defended, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of DAP.
On the Jihlava Nazi Party from 1913, a new policy statement was adopted by the delegates, which should strengthen the profile of the DAP as an independent political force against the bourgeois German National. Significant author of the program was Rudolf Jung.
On 4 and 5 May 1918 a few months before the end of the war, the last Nazi Party, the name of the party was held in Vienna, in the course in German National Socialist Workers' Party ( DNSAP ) was changed. The change of name, the words " socialist", the definition of bourgeois German National Movement should (Great German unification, from 1920: Great German People's Party, GVP ) illustrate.