 Hamburg city politics during the later 1920s , with the Social Democrats and traditional conservative parties losing out to the Communists on the left and, even more starkly, to the Nazis at the other extreme.Rudolf Klug became involved with the "Interests Community of Opposition Teachers" (""Interessengemeinschaft Oppositioneller Lehrer"" / IOL) which was created in 1931 in order to "oppose the dismantling of social rights and achievements in education and the growing risk of fascism".As a popular young teacher who was also a Communist Party activist Rudolf Klug generated mistrust at an increasingly jittery city hall, both among the Nazis and among the traditional conservatives.