Nevertheless, in 1952, Schepmann was elected to the district council and to the municipal council via the BHE list in the county of Gifhorn. In 1956 he became honorary deputy mayor of Gifhorn. His re-election in 1961, however, resulted in a public outcry and Schepmann resigned from office. Schepmann became involved in the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights. In the early 1950s, he served as a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony in West Germany. He is the father of Richard Schepmann, head of the Neo-Nazi publishing house Teut-Verlag, who was jailed in 1983 for inciting racial hatred. Wilhelm Schepmman died on 26 July 1970 in Gifhorn.