He toi pursue an active political career in the German communist party, which included an extended period in Moscow during 1927/28 attending the International Lenin School.
Hermann Nuding was arrested in February 1933 and remained in "protective custody" till the start of July 1934 when he emigrated initially to Switzerland, subsequently also spending more time in Moscow.
[2] In 1937 Hermann Nuding and Herbert Wehner were jointly commissioned by the Comintern leadership to compose a diatribe entitled "Trotskyism and Fascism".
On his release he settled down to a life as a small farmer in the south of France using, appropriately, the pseudonym "Jean Bauer".
During the early 1940s he worked illegally with both the French Resistance and the Soviet sponsored National Committee for a Free Germany.
[4] At the end of April 1945 thirty German communists, grouped in three teams of ten, arrived in what was becoming the Soviet occupation zone in Germany.
[1] His resignation from the German Bundestag on health grounds in April 1951 came as the result of an instruction received from the Berlin-based SED (party).
Hermann Nuding himself spent his final years in poor health as a pensioner in Luginsland (Stuttgart) where he died in December 1966.