He also served in the legal system, as district attorney at the Oberlandesgericht Bamberg (1945/47), as chief prosecutor at the court of cassation at the Bavarian ministry for political liberation (1946/47) and as president of the Oberlandesgericht Bamberg (1947/49).
In 1947/48 he was a member of the Länderrat, a parliamentary body representing the three states in the American zone of occupation.