 On 1 June 1945 he joined the People's Police (VP / "Volkspolizei") in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ / "Sowjetische Besatzungszone"), in the central part of what had till recently been Germany.This was the part of the country in which he had grown up, and it was the part that during the next few years would evolve into the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).From 1945 till 1948 Scheibe was deputy head of the Criminal Police in Leipzig, then serving from 1948 till 1949 as the Head of the Criminal Police in Görlitz.