From October 1920 through May 1922 he served as head of the Information Department, Deputy Chief of the secret part of the Transport Emergency Commission (Cheka) of the city of Penza.

From June – October 1922 he was the head of the Information Department of the (CHC) of the city of Pokrovsk Labor Community of the Volga Germans.

From October 1922 to September 1923, he was head of the political education department of the Regional Committee of the Komsomol of the Labor Community of the Volga Germans.

From May 1924 – December 1926 he was Chief of the Political Secretariat of the Regional Military Commissariat of the USSR of the Volga Germans.

From December 1926 to March 1927, he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief, and from April – December 1927 Editor-in-Chief of the regional newspaper of the German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga region "Trudovaya Pravda" in Pokrovsk.