The German People's Party () was a political party of the German-speaking group in the Cisleithanian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was founded in 1896 as a successor to the and was led by Otto Steinwender.
History In the 1907 elections the party contested seats within the Austrian part of Cisleithania, receiving 2.8% of the Austrian vote. Its vote share fell to 1.6% in the 1911 elections.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p209
After World War I the party contested the 1919 Constitutional Assembly elections, in which it received 2% of the national vote and won two seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p208 The following year the party merged into the Greater German People's Party.
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