Weiß joined an SA storm in Bonn in 1933, and got promoted up to an Obertruppführer. He directed the Bonn Studentenwerk.[1]: 260 He created the Mathematical Work Camps ("Mathematische Arbeitslager") in Kronenburg "as a new form of mathematical university teaching and collaboration of professors and students",[1]: 261 which took place 1—15 March 1934, 15—29 October 1934, 17 February–3 March 1935,[4] 23 February–7 March 1936,[5] and 17—31 October 1938.[6]
Segal (1992) examined Weiß' camps from a pedagogical point of view, "as one example of how mathematics and Nazi ideology would interact".[7]
Weiß was a permanent editor of the journal Deutsche Mathematik.
A list of his publications is given in Blaschke (1942).[2]
^"Arbeiten aus dem 5. Mathematischen Arbeitslager Kronenburg". Deutsche Mathematik. 4 (2): 247–272. May 1939.
^Sanford L. Segal (1992). "Ernst August Weiss: Mathematical Pedagogical Innovation in the Third Reich". In Sergei S. Demidov; Menso Folkerts; David E. Rowe; et al. (eds.). Amphora — Festschrift for Hans Wussing on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Basel: Springer. pp. 693–704. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8599-7. ISBN978-3-0348-9696-2.