sentences:  He studied at the Tampere Industrial School in 1909–12, and from 1912 to 1915 studied machinery and electrical engineering at the Mitweida Technicum and at the Strelitz Technicum (now Technical School of Civil Engineering Neustrelitz) in Germany.In 1915 he enlisted to the German Army and was assigned to the 27th Jäger Battalion.He fought in World War I on the Eastern Front at the Misa River and the Gulf of Riga.