His early training had been in physics, but he completed his Ph.D. in 1969 in the Fakultät für Geistes- und Staatswissenschaften (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences) at the University of Hannover, and his dissertation was entitled: Time as a Hierarchy of Creative Conflicts. Although this work provided a template for many of his later investigations, he had already touched on many of the core ideas in his first articles in 1966, the same year that he founded the International Society for the Study of Time.
His initial education was in physics, but he earned his Ph.D. in 1969 from the Fakultät für Geistes- und Staatswissenschaften (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences) at the University of Hannover. His dissertation was titled: Time as a Hierarchy of Creative Conflicts. Although this work served as a foundation for much of his subsequent research, he had already explored many core ideas in his early articles from 1966, which also marked the year he established the International Society for the Study of Time.