Political Career
In 1921, Leber became the editor-in-chief of the social-democratic newspaper, the "Lübecker Volksboten" – for which the then-student Willy Brandt also wrote in the early 1930s – he was also a member of Lübeck city council from 1921 to 1933. As a member of the Reichstag from 1924, he concerned himself above all with defence politics.
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