Deutsche Arbeitsfront
At the same time he was also put in charge of a new "Sekretariat fur arbeiterangelegenheiten", later called the Organisation of National Socialist Factory Cells, which sought to build up support for the Nazi Party among industrial workers. He was later sent to the German Labour Front where he revamped that group's organisation, setting up fourteen new units. He died in an accident in the Rhineland in September 1933 and was widely mourned by the Nazi hierarchy.