 Following Schur's death, Karl Schwarzschild assumed the position in 1901 and was succeeded first by Johannes Franz Hartmann and then by Hans Kienle, Paul ten Bruggencate, Hans-Heinrich Voigt, Rudolf Kippenhahn, Klaus Fricke, Klaus Beuermann, and finally Stefan Dreizler.To improve observations, a new observatory was planned on the Hainberg, a small hill south east of Göttingen.After the opening of a new observatory there in 1929, the instruments were transferred from Göttingen to this new location.