Hans Sauer is emeritus professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München and currently also professor at Vistula University, Warsaw. He received a festschrift on his 65th birthday, and the commemorative medal of the faculty of arts at the Masarykova Univerzita v Brne, Czech Republic. He was president of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) in 2004–5, and a member of the advisory board of the Richard Rawlinson Center (RRC) at the Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo for twenty years.