Acknowledgement The author would like to thank his thesis advisor Professor Victor Batyrev for posing problems, his advice and encouragement, as well as Professor Günter Ewald for giving reference to [Wir97] and Professor Klaus Altmann for the possibility of giving a talk at the FU Berlin. The author would also like to thank Professor Maximilian Kreuzer for the support with the computer package PALP, the classification data and many examples. Finally the author is grateful to the anonymous referee for corrections and many useful suggestions. The author was supported by DFG, Forschungsschwerpunkt Globale Methoden in der komplexen Geometrie. This work is part of the authors thesis.