 After the war he became an associate of Gerhard Krüger, and along with him led a short-lived political party that was quickly absorbed by the Deutsche Reichspartei in 1949.The two would later move to the more extremist Socialist Reich Party.Böhme was also close to Arthur Ehrhardt and in 1951 the pair established the pan-European nationalist journal "Nation Europa", which was to become important to the neo-fascist network across Europe.