Travels, Teaching, and Military Career
Knopp traveled widely in Asia, taking teaching jobs in Nagasaki, Japan (1908-9), at the Handelshochschule, and in Qingdao, China (1910-11), at the German-Chinese academy there, and spending some time in India and China following his stay in Japan. His wedding to Kressner, the daughter of Colonel Karl Kressner and Hedwig Rebling, took place in Germany between these periods. After Qingdao he returned to Germany for good and taught at military academies while writing his habilitation thesis for Berlin University.
During the First World War he was an officer and was wounded at the beginning of the war, which resulted in his discharge from the army; by the autumn of 1914 he was teaching at Berlin University. In the following year he was appointed as an extraordinary professor at the University of Königsberg, becoming an ordinary professor there in 1919. In 1926 he accepted a professorship at Tübingen University as the chair of mathematics, and remained there until his retirement in 1950.
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