Adorno’s permanent return to Germany was completed in August 1953.

Evidence

After the letter from the executive committee of the Hacker Clinic, Adorno had given notice for 31 July 1953. In the middle of July he and his wife received passports valid for two years. On 6 August he had the astrology study finished. On 19 August he and his wife sailed from New York to Cherbourg. … Adorno never travelled to the USA again. When their passports expired in 1955, he and his wife became German citizens. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 489

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno and Horkheimer returned to Germany expecting greater practical impact.; Adorno returned to California in 1952-53 chiefly to retain American citizenship — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 592
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno and Horkheimer returned to Germany expecting greater practical impact.; Adorno returned to California in 1952-53 chiefly to retain American citizenship — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 592