Claim: Roland Scholl became the Polytechnikum's Privatdozent in chemistry in 1893 and, in 1897, attempted but failed to get the assistant director position at Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe's chemical laboratory.
Evidence: In 1897, he became the assistant director of the chemical laboratory of the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe (today the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).