 Later he took a job in Stockholm on the newspaper, "Politische Information".After the war, in January 1946, Georg Henke returned to what was left of Germany, arriving in what was now the Soviet occupation zone, a piece of territory in the process of being reinvented as the German Democratic Republic.In February 1946 he was given a position in the Economics Department of the Central Committee in the (soon to be superseded) Communist Party (KPD).