The German Workers' Party (, DAP) in Austria-Hungary was the predecessor of the Austrian and Czechoslovak (DNSAP), founded on 14 November 1903, in Aussig (ÃÂstÃÂ nad Labem), Bohemia. Its founder was Ferdinand Burschofsky.
The German Workers' Party sought to defend German interests in the Czech lands. Its party program was founded on Pan-Germanism, and was vehemently anti-Slavic, anti-Catholic, anti-Marxist and anti-capitalist.
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 First World War DAP was divided into two separate name-sake parties - the German National Socialist Workers Party in the Republic of Austria (led by Walter Riehl) and the German National Socialist Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (led by Hans Knirsch).