The German Workers' Party (, DAP) in

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was the predecessor of the Austrian and Czechoslovak (DNSAP), founded on 14 November 1903, in Aussig (

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. Its founder was Ferdinand Burschofsky. The German Workers' Party sought to defend German interests in the Czech lands. Its party program was founded on

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, and was vehemently anti-Slavic,

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, anti-Marxist and

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. In the elections for the Imperial Council in 1905 and 1911, the party obtained 3 seats. Hans Knirsch was chosen as parliamentary chairman in 1912. At the end of the

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, Walter Riehl would take over as leader of Austrian chapter of the party, which would be renamed the (DNSAP). Concurrently, Hans Knirsch would take up the leadership of the Czechoslovak DNSAP, a forerunner of the Sudeten German National Socialist Party.

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