 He was a member of the DNVP (the conservative party) in the Weimar Republic, and served as a Member of Parliament from 1924 to 1928.In 1933 he joined the Nazi Party, which he represented in the Reichstag (an almost purely ceremonial roll in the Third Reich) until the end of the Second World War in 1945.In 1935 he became a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship.