After the war ended and revolution spread from the naval ports in the north to factories and cities across the country, Stoecker became a leading participant in the Workers' and Soldiers' Soviet in Cologne. Between December 1918 and June 1919 he was editor of "Volkstribüne" the USPD's local newspaper in Elberfeld (Wuppertal). With the city under British military occupation at the time, Cologne did not feature prominently in the more extreme manifestations of the "German revolution". For a time during 1919 Stoecker served as a Cologne city councillor. At the start of 1919, he had been elected to the , mandated to produce a new post-imperial Prussian constitution, and a precursor body to the replacement &lt;a href="Landtag%20of%20Prussia"&gt;Prussian "Landtag" / "Diet"&lt;/a&gt; which was elected on 20 February 1921.