 As the director, Zacharias published research reports from 1893 on the Station's activities, which were recorded from 1905 in the Archives of Hydrobiology.In so-called "summer schools" Zacharias trained teachers and laity interested in working with the microscope.It became part of the Max Planck Society in 1948, and was renamed in 1966 as the Max Planck Institute of Limnology.