After graduating school in 1896, he studied astronomy, but soon switched to chemistry, to comply with his father's wishes for him to become a master of brewery at the University of Würzburg and University of Berlin where he gained his PhD in chemistry in 1900.
He studied astronomy. He soon switched to chemistry. This was to comply with his father's wishes for him to become a master of brewery at the University of Würzburg and University of Berlin where he gained his PhD in chemistry in 1900. He was graduating school in 1896.