 Concurrently, he was elected as an SPD representative to the Abgeordnetenhaus (the state-level parliament) of West Berlin in the 1950 West Berlin state election, and served there through 1971.In the 1969 West German federal election he was again elected to the Bundestag, but as a delegate from North Rhine-Westphalia, and remained in the Bundestag as a delegate from that state until his death in 1992.In 1950, Brandt, while a member of the Bundestag and the editor-in-chief of the "Berliner Stadtblatt", received a secret payment of about 170,000 Deutsche Mark from the U.S. government ().