 In 1941 Libertas Schulze-Boysen became an English language lecturer, to teach translators the language.Shulze-Boysen who also lectured there, would met three people at the institute who would become important members of his group.These were the student and interpreter Eva-Maria Buch, Horst Heilmann, a confirmed Nazi and Hitler Youth member and Herbert Gollnow, a Luftwaffe officer.