 As a member of the left wing of the party, he soon began to oppose the policies of Konrad Adenauer.In 1952 he left the CDU in protest against the policies of attachment to the West and founded the German Club 1954 ("Deutscher Klub 1954"), which had a national-neutralist program, just like the "Bund der Deutschen".In 1956 he delivered a speech as a guest at the party conference of the Christian Democratic Party of East Germany.