[1] In 1929 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany, leading his family to cut further financial support for his studies.
Bochow then earns his living as a clerical employee and begins to use his artistic talent for political struggle.
He wrote poems, novels and plays and also composed a cantata on the Communist Manifesto and scenes for the Leipzig agitprop troops of the KPD.
The circle includes the painters Albert Hensel and Eva Schulze-Knabe and the electrician Karl Stein.
After weeks of interrogation and torture, on March 11, 1942, Herbert Bochow, Fritz Schulze and Albert Hensel were convicted of "high treason" and sentenced to death and executed on June 5 in Plötzensee prison in Berlin.