Other Positions
- From 1935 – Chairman of the committee to appoint a successor to Arnold Sommerfeld.
- From 1939 – Member of the Comerlin working group on ship degaussing and torpedo physics.
- From 1948 – a member of the Göttingen, Halle, and Munich Academies of Sciences.
- Member of the Ordre pour le Mérite.
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