Gohr worked for the "Deutsche Düngerzentrale" (which until its dissolution in 1949 was a national body involved with fertiliser) and became a member of the FDGB ("Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund" / ""Free German Trade Union Federation"") which was emerging in the Soviet occupation zone (but "not" in the other three occcupation zones to the south and west) as the national monopoly trades union organisation.