 On her return to Hamburg she took a post in the party regional leadership team ("Bezirksleitung") for Wasserkante, the region to the north of the Elbe estuary.It was here that she first met the painter-decorator Heinrich Langhans whom she would later marry.Between 1931 and 1933 she also sat as one of the 26 Communist members of the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft (Hamburg state legislature).