Third Way (Germany)

The party is registered at the Federal Returning Office as "DER DRITTE WEG" short-form: "III. Weg". According to the party's website, the official English translation of the name is "The Third Way", stylized as "THE THIRD WAY". Despite this, the party's name is commonly translated as "The Third Path" or "The III. Path". ==History==

Third way was founded in Heidelberg on 28 September 2013 by Klaus Armstroff, a former official of the Rhineland-Palatinate NPD, with the other five founding members of its federal board also being former NPD members. According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) the party is "particularly linked to the programme of the so-called left wing of the NSDAP around the Strasser brothers" arguing for "German Socialism" and the "preservation and development of the biological substance of the people." The party stood in the 2019 European elections, achieving 0.03% of the vote. Der Dritte Weg has sent a delegation to the annual neo-Nazi 612 march in Finland. In 2019 the event was attended by then leader of the party Armstroff. During the 2021 German federal election, the party had controversial posters which called for Hang the Greens. These posters were ordered to be taken down by the courts later on. In 2025, the party won a seat in the North Rhine-Westphalia local elections. == Structure ==

In Bavaria, the six "bases" in 2014 reflected the centers of the former comradeships. In 2019, the party succeeded in expanding its structures, albeit only slightly. Accordingly, only three of the planned four regional associations have been founded so far. The party has not yet succeeded in establishing structures in the north of Germany. At the federal party conference in September 2019, Der III. Weg decided to amend its statutes to restructure the regional associations into state associations. The party had previously taken part in the local elections in Saxony in 2019, but was denied participation in the state elections in Saxony on September 1, 2019, by the state election committee for formal reasons. With the amendments to the statutes, the party underlined its intention to continue to contest elections in the future and thus fulfil or consolidate one of the requirements necessary to maintain party status. In 2019, the estimated number of members/followers/supporters nationwide increased to around 580. As of 2021, the majority of the approximately 650 full and supporting members were active in the federal states of Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony, and since 2019 also in NRW in the greater Cologne-Düsseldorf area. Funding According to the constitutional protection report of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the party is mainly financed by donations and contributions in 2019. == Ideology ==

The party describes itself as national revolutionary and partially bases itself on the ideology of the Strasser Brothers of the early Nazi Party. The III. Path has widely been described as a ultranationalist and neo-Nazi party. ==Election results==

Federal Parliament (Bundestag) European Parliament State elections ==See also==