Abstract
The 1935 Czechoslovak parliamentary elections saw the Sudeten German Party(SdP) emerge as the party with the greatest number of votes. The present studyrepresents a biographical group analysis of the members of the parliamentary clubwhich was formed by this newly founded party together with the Carpathian Ger-man party (KdP).
Based on biographical data it examines social and educationalbackground, professional careers and political activities of its members. Genera-tional patterns and internal factions are thus becoming apparent, with special atten-tion being devoted to the men belonging to the so-called Comradeship (Kamerad-schaftsbund, KB).
In a long-term perspective, the author subsequently looks at theparliamentarians' careers both in the National Socialist state and post-war. He arri-ves at the conclusion that the SdP/KdP parliamentary club was a relatively hetero-geneous grouping of former members of the 'negativistic' parties prohibited underCzechoslovak law.
Its members were, however, mostly middle-class males of com-paratively young age. The author also demonstrates that the integration of the parlia-mentarians into the NSDAP after 1938 went relatively smoothly despite a lot ofinter-factional skirmishing.
These internal quarrels were finally overcome only afterthe Germans had been expelled from Czechoslovakia, in the ranks of the WestGerman compatriot organization Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft (SL) and itssubdivision from the nationalistic right wing, the 'Witiko society'.