Between 1941 and 1943 Schubart-Fikentscher taught at the so-called "Volkspflegeschule" (college) in Brandenburg. It was probably towards the end of 1943 that she moved with her husband back to Zwickau, where they stayed with relatives. The move was prompted by the destruction in of the library where Wilhelm Schubart, at this point in semi-retirement, was working and of their apartment in Berlin-Lichterfelde by British bombing. Between 1943 and 1946 she taught Civil Law and Legal History at the Leipzig University Law Faculty. Although she now had a teaching contract with a major university and was, to all intents and purposes, occupying a teaching chair, she was described as a "teaching chair representative" and did not, at this stage, hold a university professorship. One recurring explanation given for this was that the professorship in question was being held open for who had been appointed to it in 1940 and then conscripted for Military service.