 From 1929 to 1931, he was a member of the KJVD's subdistrict ("Unterbezirk") leadership in Naumburg and Teuchern.Afterwards, in 1930, Launicke was moved to Wiehe, and as of 1931, he took on the function of a KJVD instructor of the subdistrict leadership in Halle.In February 1933, not long after the Nazis seized power, he got a reprimand from the local district for his political activities.