[1] Ringo graduated from the Universities of Bern, Zurich and Nancy, received an education as an engineer and philosopher.

In 1917 in Switzerland he published the book Jewish Question in its Historical Context and its Proposed Solution (German: Die Judenfrage in ihrem geschichtlichen Zusammenhang und Vorschläge ihrer Lösung).

In Switzerland Josef met Vladimir Lenin.

[4] From 1918 to 1922 he worked as the head of the electric department of Moscow and the Moscow region, provincial electrical engineer, then director of the electrical installation office of the Moscow Sovnarkhoz[5] and the department of small-scale electrification of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy.

[1] In 1921 under Lenin's order Ringo managed to electrify the residence of Lenin in Gorki in an extremely short amount of time.