On January 30 , 1933 Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist ( Nazi ) party assumed power , and began to use a variety of laws to enforce their agenda . As early as April 7 , 1933 the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banned Jews and other persons who the Nazis considered unfit to hold office from the German Civil Service and German universities . This created large numbers of vacancies : an estimated 26 % of chemists and biochemists were driven from posts at German and Austrian universities . Required with other professors at German universities to take an oath of allegiance pledging his loyalty to Adolf Hitler , Bredig refused . He was forced out of the university in 1933 by the National Socialists , ending his teaching and research activities . The " retirement " of Bredig and other senior scientists such as Stefan Goldschmidt and Paul Askenasy left a significant gap in the university 's expertise . In addition Bredig suffered the loss of his wife , who died in 1933 . Regardless , he remained in Karlsruhe . His son Max Albert Bredig was warned by colleagues and left his job in Berlin in 1937 , taking only his books . He succeeded in reaching Sweden , England , and eventually the United States , joining Kasimir Fajans at the University of Michigan . From the United States , he worked to rescue his father , his sister , her husband , and others . In November 1938 , during Kristallnacht , most of the male Jewish population of Karlsruhe was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp . Georg Bredig and his son-in-law Dr. Viktor Homburger were among the 500 Jews arrested . They were released after showing proof of their intention to emigrate
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Georg Bredig