Following the German Revolution, Kranold worked with Otto Neurath and Wolfgang Schumann on the Programm Kranold-Neurath-Schumann in Saxony.
All three subsequently went to Bavaria, where Neurath was appointed President of the Central Economic Administration for the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
[1] Kranold was elected to the Silesian provincial parliament to represent Sprottau District from 1925-32.
He received financial help from the American Friends Service Committee for the travel costs for him and his family who arrived in the US in 1936.
They had three children, Candida ("Candy"), Peter, and Johanna Kranold who were born in Sprottau, Silesia.