How did Nazi rule affect Edmund Husserl’s university career after 1933?

Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Edmund Husserl was excluded from the university. Despite this forced separation from his academic position, he remained deeply committed to his work, using the period of isolation to focus on the task of preserving the freedom of the mind through phenomenology.1

Although he was effectively silenced within Germany, Husserl continued his philosophical contributions through private study, discussions with his research assistant Eugen Fink, and interactions with visiting scholars. He also maintained his influence by delivering lectures abroad, including significant presentations in Vienna and Prague in 1935, which allowed him to continue advocating for free philosophy despite the encroaching threat of the Nazi regime. These efforts culminated in his final work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, in which he developed his concept of the Lebenswelt (life-world).1