 For a short time, he worked with Karl Doflein in Berlin, and from 1907 to 1922 at the municipal building control office in Charlottenburg, which was an independent city until 1920.Afterwards, he was employed at the municipal construction office of Berlin until he retired in 1950.In between, he became "Baurat" (building control office surveyor) in 1921, "Oberbaurat" in 1929, later "Magistratsbaurat" and finally "Stadtbaudirektor", head of the Berlin municipal building office.