Deutsche Arbeitsfront
In 1935 he broke away from the DSAP. The break with the party was provoked by developments in the trade union field. On March 3, 1935 a delegate conference of DMV in Upper Silesia was held at which Buchwald called for dissolving the union and merging with the Trade Union of German Workers in Poland (GDA) in its place (an initiative of the German Labour Front in Gleiwitz). Later the same month Buchwald was included in the GDA leadership.