 She was promoted in 1949 to the post of party "Women's Secretary" for the important Greater Berlin district.1949 was also the year in which the Soviet occupation zone was relaunched, formally in October, as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic, a separated German state with its political institutions consciously modeled on those of the Soviet Union.Between 1949 and 1952 Roberta Gropper served as the Berlin area chair of the Berlin region Democratic Women's League (""Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands"" / DFD).