 He went on to work for the department store Horten AG in Düsseldorf and was employed as an advisor for the Lürssen-Werft shipyard in Bremen in the 1970s.August Frühling was pardoned by the Senate of Bremen in 1951, through the commutations of sentences for Nazi perpetrators that were stipulated by the US High Commissioner for Germany, John Jay McCloy.After this, from 1952, he returned to work as a ship’s engineer.