 Eggeling's skills so impressed his superiors that he was elected to the Reichstag for the NSDAP in November, 1933.After Gauleiter Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper's death on 23 October 1935, Eggeling was charged with the leadership of the Gau's business and owing to this, he was granted leave from his job as a provincial agricultural leader in February 1936.In the same year, Eggeling joined the SS (membership number