Neumann stayed lawyering until the SA seized his office in 1933

Evidence

In that capacity, he fought with desperate courage as a constitutional lawyer against press restrictions, dispersals of meetings, arrests, sackings of tenured officials, and similar acts of despotism by the governments of Papen, Schleicher and Hitler. Although he was in danger politically and was under threat as a Jew, he remained at his post until 2 May 1933, when the SA occupied our law practice in the Metal Workers’ Building in the Alte Jakobstrasse. Further activity in Germany had become pointless. He took his leave of me, who had been his partner in the practice and companion in shared hopes and efforts for over fourteen years, with the words, `I’ve had enough of world history.’ A brilliant career had been ruined, the struggle for socially acceptable employment law had been lost, the constitutional state had collapsed, and democracy was destroyed … Franz Neumann emigrated to England without a penny. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 927

Categorization

• BMF: Adorno-style: the partner’s eulogy for a career — ‘I’ve had enough of world history’ — with the refugee leaving penniless, evokes The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s Changez leaving America stripped of his success, and the whole motif of the brilliant career ruined by history’s ruptures. Not a strong match, so lower confidence — more likely just a factual passage.