Through the later 1950s and the 1960s Paulick played a key role in the rebuilding of the historical central quarters of Berlin. High on the lists of his contributions cited by commentators is his work in the rebuilding of the Berlin State Opera which had been destroyed by war-time bombing, most recently, thoroughly completely on 3 February 1945. He was also involved in the rebuilding of Dresden. He led the at the (loosely, "Blueprints and Experimentation Section") at the East German Building Academy in Berlin. His didactic role led to him being talked of as a "professor" in some quarters, and in 1957 he consolidated his position as an insider within the East German political establishment – somewhat belatedly by some criteria – by joining the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. That concession to the politicians coincided with his appointment to take charge of a major new town development at Hoyerswerda, much of which had been destroyed by the Russian army in 1945 and where there was an urgent need for extensive and rapid additional residential development to support the expansion of nearby lignite mines. During the later 1950s he was appointed "chief architect" and, in that capacity, given charge of a number of other important new town developments (proudly promoted at the time as "socialist cities") needed to provide accommodation and infrastructure for workers employed in new labour-intensive industries, including those at Schwedt, where the government had decided to create extensive oil refining capacity, and at Halle-Neustadt, which formed the focus of a new (though after 1990 very much diminished) chemicals industry.
