Page "Edmund Husserl" Paragraph 12

Nineteen thirty-three was an ugly year in Germany when the racial laws of the new Nazi regime were enacted.

On April 6 Husserl was suspended from the University of Freiburg by the Badische Ministry of Culture ; the following week he was disallowed any university activities.

Yet his colleague Heidegger was elected Rektor of the university on April 21 – 22, and joined the Nazi party.

By contrast, in July Husserl resigned from the Deutsche Academie.