As chairman of the board of Jacobs University Bremen, he shaped the international school towards excellence.
His awards include Officer of the Légion d’Honneur and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
[1] At age 10, he attended the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Kassel, but his education was interrupted in 1941 by military service with the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II.
[4] Lüst was interested in European space science from the beginning on the "Commission préparatoire européenne de recherches spatiales" (COPERS).
Lüst was chairman of the Wissenschaftsrat, an advisory board for German national and state politics, from 1969 to 1972.
[4] Lüst was president of the German Max Planck Society from 1972 to 1984 and the third Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) from 1984 until 1990.
[4][6] He was an Officer of the Légion d’Honneur and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.