[1] Between 1958 and 1989 she was a member of the Central Committee of the ruling SED (party) in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where she was also director of the Berlin based Academy for Social Sciences.
[1] In 1921 she became a member of the SAJ (Sozialistische Arbeiter-Jugend), which was in effect the youth wing of the country's SPD (Germany's party of the moderate left).
During this period Veser took part in anti-militaristic actions with regard to the French army of occupation in the Palatinate (Rhineland) region across the river from Mannheim, and undertook so-called spoiling missions ("Zersetzungsarbeit") involving the police there.
[1] In 1935 she escaped to France from where she emigrated to the Soviet Union where she was given the "party name", "Helene Berg",[1] a name to which she switched and which she officially retained after the war ended.
Berg became a member of the new country's ruling SED (party) and took a position as a teacher at the prestigious Karl Marx Academy in Liebenwalde.
In 1951 she briefly became acting director of the Karl Marx Academy, before accepting a professorial directorship at the Party Central Committee's Social Sciences Institute, remaining in this post till 1958.
Between 1958 and 1971 she was the German party's editor and representative for the Prague based international ideological newspaper World Marxist Review (WMR / "Problems of Peace and socialism" / "Проблемы мира и социализма").