 In order to protect himself from further persecution, Schulze-Boysen surrounded himself with a group of politically incorruptible friends who were left-leaning anti-fascists, among them artists, pacifists and Communists.In the summer of 1934, he met 20-year-old Libertas Haas-Heye, while they were sailing on the Wannsee.Libertas Haas-Heye worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Berlin as a press officer.