Later Years
Around World War I, Zenneck went to the front as a Captain in the Marines. However, in 1914, the German government sent him to the United States as technical advisor in a patent case of great importance to Germany. When the United States entered the war they declared Zenneck a Prisoner of War. He was dismissed only in 1920 when he could finally take over the professorship of experimental physics at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. In that time he resumed propagation studies, now with shortwaves and was first in Germany to study the Ionosphere with vertical sounding at his station at Kochel/Bavaria. Since the 1930s Zenneck directed the Deutsche Museum in Munich and rebuilt it after World War II. Zenneck was awarded the 1928 IRE Medal of Honor for his achievements in basic research on radio technology and for fostering academic and technical offspring he received the Siemens-Ring in 1956.
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