10 Facts About Fritz Sauter

From 1924 to 1928, Sauter studied mathematics and physics at the Leopold-Franzens-Universitat Innsbruck.

Fritz Sauter received his doctorate in 1928 under Arthur March, with a thesis on Kirchhoff's theory of diffraction.

In January 1931, Sommerfeld recommended Fritz Sauter to Max Born, director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Gottingen.

From 1931 to 1934, Fritz Sauter was an assistant to Richard Becker at the Technische Hochschule Berlin in Charlottenburg.

In 1934, Fritz Sauter, while only a Privatdozent, was brought in to Gottingen as acting director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and lecturer on theoretical physics; Born was officially retired under the Nuremberg Laws on 31 December 1935.

Fritz Sauter continued in this role until 1936, when Becker was appointed director, after the Reichserziehungsministerium eliminated his position at Berlin and reassigned him to Gottingen.

From 1942 to 1945, Fritz Sauter was ordinarius professor of theoretical physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

From 1950 to 1951, Fritz Sauter had a teaching assignment and was substitute director of the theoretical physics department at Technische Hochschule Hanover.

Fritz Sauter wrote his own book on differential equations of physics, and, after Sommerfeld's death in 1951, Sauter was editor on the 4th, 5th, and 6th editions of Sommerfeld's book on the same subject, and he was editor of the four volume, collected works of Sommerfeld.

Fritz Sauter was editor of books by Becker, with whom he had been an assistant in Berlin.