Dachverband der Nationalen Sammlung

The Dachverband der Nationalen Sammlung (lit. 'Umbrella organization of the national gathering', DNS) was a short-lived electoral alliance between three minor far-right parties for the 1953 West German federal election. It consisted of the German Community (DG), the German Social Movement (DSB) and the German Bloc [de] (DB). Although the DSB and DG had cooperated since 15 November 1952, the electoral alliance, which by then also included the DB, was officially founded on 8 May 1953 and constituted itself as a political party in the sense of the German party law on 19 July 1953.^[1][2]

The alliance was unsuccessful during the election, only receiving 0.26% of the national vote (70,726 second votes),^[3] underperforming the German Realm Party as well as the DG's previous results in its home state Bavaria.^[1] The fact that the alliance only ran in two states, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, also contributed to its low result.^[2]

Soon after the election, Priester's German Social Movement (DSB) would leave this alliance, accusing the leaders of the two other parties of not being nationalist enough in their previous speeches.^[4] In fact, there were also notable ideological differences between particularly the DSB and the German Community (DG), with the former believing the age of nation-states to have past, instead preferring a unified fascist Europe (in line with the Europe a Nation idea); while the DG was a staunch supporter of the independent nation-state. Following this break, the DSB would declare itself to be a non-partisan group.^[4]