[1] When he learned of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, he used his savings to travel to America by ship in October 1903.

[1][3] Although he planned to go back to Germany in 1904, instead he joined the Stearns Automobile Company in Cleveland as a carburetor maker.

[4] He joined the Ford Motor Company (twenty-four years old at that time) as a designer in December 1905.

In 1921, he founded a scholarship for the poor students of his native town who wished to take up higher education at trade school.

During World War II on Ford's suggestion, he designed a small six-cylinder car, which was completed in 1942.