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.
In 1897, he became the assistant director of the chemical laboratory of the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe (today the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). 
