Editing Erich Maria Remarque (section)

==Post-war employment==
After the war he continued his teacher training and worked from 1&nbsp;August 1919 as a primary-school teacher in [[Wietmarschen|Lohne]], at that time in the county of Lingen, now in the county of [[Grafschaft Bentheim|Bentheim]]. From May 1920 he worked in [[Klein Berssen]] in the former County of [[Hümmling (district)|Hümmling]], now [[Emsland]], and from August 1920 in [[Nahne]], which has been a part of Osnabrück since 1972. On 20&nbsp;November 1920 he applied for leave of absence from teaching. 

He worked at a number of different jobs in this phase of his life, including librarian, businessman, journalist, and editor. His first paid writing job was as a technical writer for the [[Continental AG|Continental Rubber Company]], a German tire manufacturer.<ref name=Motor196908>{{cite magazine|title=Exactly as it happened... (the story of an encounter in Ticino with Remarque and the coach-built Lancia Dilambda, which following ''All Quiet on the Western Front'', he purchased in 1931 and retained till the late 1960s)|magazine=[[The Motor (magazine)|Motor]]|volume=3506|pages=26–30|date=30 August 1969}}</ref>