Emigration and Later Years
By 1936 Hermann left Germany for Denmark and later France and England. Her interests in her later years focussed more on politics and philosophy than on physics and mathematics.
After the end of World War II, Hermann returned to West-Germany in 1946. She was nominated professor for philosophy and physics at the de:Pädagogische Hochschule in Bremen and played a relevant role in the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft. From 1961 to 1978, she presided the de:Philosophisch-Politische Akademie, an organisation founded by Nelson in 1922, oriented towards education, social justice, responsible political action and its philosophical basis.
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