 After completing his schooling, Georg undertook an apprenticeship between 1924 and 1927 in export sales.He was in business as an export salesman between 1927 and 1933.He joined the General Federation of Independent Employees ("Allgemeiner freier Angestelltenbund") in 1928, becoming both a teacher and head of the Economics Working Group at the Marxist Workers' Academy (MASCH) / "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ökonomie der Marxistischen Arbeiterschule").