Prussian Academy of Sciences
The speech and the obituary note earned Laue government reprimands. Furthermore, in response to Laue blocking Stark's regular membership in the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Stark, in December 1933, had Laue sacked from his position as advisor to the PTR, which Laue had held since 1925. Chapters 4 and 5, in Welker's "Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the Atomic Bomb", present a more detailed account of the struggle by Laue and Planck against the Nazi takeover of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.