He moved to Berlin, where he attended the Friedrich Wilhelms University, earning his doctorate in chemistry in 1926 under Walther Nernst.
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In 1927, he began researching rocket fuels, working at BASF, then IG Farben, in Ludwigshafen.
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He was imprisoned on an island near Baku, and then transferred to the infamous Cheka prison, Lubianka in Moscow.
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