 Because both Schmid and König were opposed to Nazism, they were involved in disputes over the appointment of new, politically reliable mathematicians at the University of Jena in the Nazi era.After the end of World War II, König went to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.At Munich from 1947 to 1950, he was instrumental in offering professorships to Constantin Carathéodory and Eberhard Hopf.