during his university years, stresemann also became active in burschenschaften movement of student fraternities, and in april 1898 became editor of the "allgemeine deutsche universitäts-zeitung" (), a newspaper run by konrad kuster, a leader in the liberal part of the burschenschaften. his editorials for the paper were often political, and dismissed most political parties as wrong in one way or another. in these early writings, he combined liberalism with nationalism. in 1898, stresemann left the university of berlin, and went to the university of leipzig so that he could study for a doctorate. he completed his studies in january 1901, submitting a thesis on the bottled beer industry in berlin, which received a relatively high grade.