sentences:  Finkelnburg began his studies of physics and mathematics in 1924 at the University of Tübingen and the University of Bonn.He acquired his doctorate in 1928 under Heinrich Konen, and remained as Konen’s teaching assistant.In 1931 he became a teaching assistant at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, and in 1932 he became a Privatdozent there.