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 primary training was in physics but obtained his Ph.D. at the Fakultät für Geistes- und Staatswissenschaften (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences) within the University of Hannover in 1969, with a dissertation titled "Time as a Hierarchy of Creative Conflicts." Although this thesis formed the basis for much of his later work, he had already delved into many core concepts in his earlier articles from 1966, which also coincided with the founding of the International Society for the Study of Time.