At the same time, he continued his autodidactical education in history, sociology, pedagogy and political science, spending most of his winters in Berlin, where he also came into contact with Eduard Spranger.
In 1932 Ferber emigrated to Austria, where he worked in Vienna as a features editor of the trade union newspaper Die neue Zeitung under Eugen Kogon.
"[2] Due to differences over the political orientation of the newspaper, Ferber left the editorial team and lived as a freelance journalist.
He published regularly in the weekly magazine Der christliche Ständestaat under Dietrich von Hildebrand and was a member of the Studienrunde katholischer Soziologen under the leadership of Ernst Karl Winter.
On October 24, 1942, Ferber was released from the Dachau concentration camp and transferred to the 19th Infantry Replacement Battalion, a probationary unit of the German Wehrmacht.
"[3] During transport to North Africa, where this unit was to be used for mine clearance, Ferber managed to escape to nearby Switzerland near Héricourt in France, and crossed the Swiss border near Boncourt on 25 November 1942.
This letter states, among other things, that the Holy Father had been informed about the situation of the clergy in the concentration camps since 1940, but considered effective intervention to be almost impossible.
Through the mediation of university professor P. Wilhelm Schmitt, he was privately interned in Fribourg in Üechtland in August 1943, where he prepared the re-foundation of the Centre Party.
From 1948 to 1950 he published the Föderalistische Hefte, which he founded, in which classics of federalism such as Constantin Frantz as well as well-known federalist-minded personalities of the post-war period, including the widow of Benedikt Schmittmann, Helene (Ella) Schmittmann-Wahlen, were given a voice.