 Having completed his studies, Buchardt returned to Riga, where he tried to organize a national German-Baltic movement under the leadership of Erhard Kroeger.Buchardt funded and contributed to the pro-Nazi newspaper "Rigaschen Rundschau", which was closed by the Latvian authorities in May 1934 because it had too many connections with Nazi Germany.This plunged Buchardt into financial difficulties, so he became a lawyer for a marketing company in Germany, and then the economics head of the Baltic Institute.