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Repeatedly, official documents indicate that Einstein is a Swiss citizen. That is the case, for example, when the registry office complains to Einstein’s employer, the Academy of Sciences, about this foreigner who does not de-register as prescribed whenever he travels; and it is the case as well, in the correspondence leading to Einstein’s election as a member of the board of trustees of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in 1916