 It was at the request of the newspaper's management that in 1949 he moved house, relocating to what was becoming known as East Berlin.In October 1949 the entire Soviet occupation zone was rebranded and relaunched as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic, a new kind of German one-party dictatorship.He moved again in 1952/53, settling with his wife and their two daughters in Kleinmachnow, a suburb on the southside of the city.