 He was imprisoned at Wolfenbüttel till 11 August 1934, after which he was involved in forced labour at a young persons' holiday camp on the Island of Sylt.By the end of 1934 he was back in Hamburg and had taken work with the little coffee trading business set up near the dockside by the former municipal politician Kurt Adams.Two things he had in common with Adams (and with his fellow employees) were that he needed to support himself financially and that he had been deprived of his chosen career for reasons of politics and / or race.