Historical background to Gröbner's paper

In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis [2], Bruno Buchberger invented the algebraic object known today as a Gröbner basis. The thesis problem that Buchberger was given by his advisor, Wolfgang Gröbner, was that of finding a basis of the residue class ring of a zero-dimensional polynomial ideal. It is clear that Gröbner knew generally of a method for computing this [1], and indeed the last paragraph of Gröbner’s 1950 paper [3] reads (in translation)