 Pupils and teachers at his own school in Telemann Street, supported by the governors, protested and the Social Democrat chairman of the governors Fritz Köhne succeeded in having him reinstated, but the supervisory school board nevertheless insisted that he be moved to another school, and asked the police to keep an eye on him.The Nazis took power nationally in January 1933 and lost little time in converting the German state into a one-party dictatorship.Party political activity (unless in support of the Nazi party) became illegal.