After finishing high school Demmin studied law and economics in Heidelberg, Berlin and Greifswald.
Prior to 1914 he worked as a clerk at the District Court with the government in Demmin and Merseburg.
Rohr-Demmin started politically active in the Weimar period in the German National People's Party.
In addition, he served from 1925 to 1933 as chairman of the Section dess the Agrarian League in the province of Pomerania.
In 1942 Rohr-Demmin was convicted and given a prison sentence but was released again after the verdict was annulled by the Supreme Court.