 During the period of acute austerity and turbulence on the streets that followed the end of the First World War Oehring also belonged, with his comrades Ernst Jacobi und Friedrich M. Minck, to the so-called "Co-operative Council for Economic Reconstruction" (""Rätegenossenschaft für wirtschaftlichen Aufbau"").In 1922 Oehring moved to the Soviet Union.By May 1923 he was back in Berlin, possibly on account of his wife's health.