On July 20, 1934, Artur Görlitzer became councilor in Berlin, from 1941 he was the director and manager of the local Deutschlandhalle AG and supervisory board member of the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand AG auditing office. On March 13, 1943, the diary of Joseph Goebbels refers to an anniversary celebration for Görlitzer, stating that he has been Goebbels' deputy for ten years. From the beginning of 1944, Görlitzer joined the East Ministry under Reich Minister Alfred Rosenberg. In this function, he was briefly in the spring of 1944 General Commissioner of the General District Shitomir in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. However, this office had no practical significance, as the area had already been reconquered by the Red Army. Artur Görlitzer and his wife Paula committed suicide in Berlin on April 25, 1945. At that time, the city of Berlin was already surrounded by the Red Army. Their son Bruno had fallen at the beginning of 1943 at Stalingrad. Their daughter Anita emigrated to the US after the war.