Later in 1929, he founded the first Nazi farmers' newspaper Freiheit und Scholl, which was distributed as a supplement to the Nassauer Beobachter (Nassau Observer).

From April 1931 through September 1932 he was the press chief for the Party's Agricultural Policy Department headed by Walther Darré in the Reichsleitung (National Leadership) in Munich.

[4] Staebe authored special guidelines for rural propaganda in June 1931, stressing that the peasantry should be provided with "positive ideas about the National Socialist movement" and its policies.

He suggested in July 1931 establishing a special cadre of Bauernredner (Peasant Speakers), since the Party at that time lacked orators specifically trained in agricultural issues of interest to the peasantry.

[5] From 1932 to June 1933, Staebe was a member of the editorial board of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party's largest daily newspaper, overseeing the agricultural and political departments.

He also was named by Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach as the Press Chief of the Reich Youth Leadership, holding this position through November 1934.

During 1934, Staebe was featured in the press campaign orchestrated by Reichsminister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels against monarchists, reactionaries and conservative opponents of the regime, as well as those that were labelled "carpers, critics and killjoys."

In a nationwide radio broadcast on 24 May 1934, Staebe defined reactionaries as "everybody who is not a convinced National Socialist and is no longer young," asserting that "the future of the new Germany lies only in its youth.

He concurrently sat on the State Farmers' Council in Hesse-Nassau and was the regional leader for the Reich Association of the German Press from 1937 to May 1945.