Honours
- Member of the Upper-House (Kammer der Reichsräte) of the Bavarian Parliament
- Honorary citizen of the city of Munich
- Honorary citizen of Holzkirchen
- Honorary president of the second world conference on electrical power (Weltkraftkonferenz)
- Siemens-Ring
Several posts which von Miller held emphasize his personality and the importance he had in electro-technology, for example:
- Chairman of the Association of German Engineers
- Member of the peace delegation of 1919 in Versailles as technical advisor
- Author of numerous books, of which those concerned with the issue of supplying electrical power to and from cities became the standard works.
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