Claus Wellenreuther

Claus Wellenreuther (* 1935 in Mannheim ) is a German entrepreneur and co-founder of SAP AG.

Life and career

Wellenreuther studied at the University of Mannheim, the field of business with emphasis on Operations Research.

His dissertation on the topic of Markov processes and their application to response systems he put before July 8, 1968 at Walter Georg Schmidt weapons. Then Wellenreuther worked in Mannheim at IBM. There he was involved in the development of financial accounting systems. However, in late 1971, he left IBM to program a standard financial accounting with batch processing. Shortly thereafter, he joined his former IBM colleagues Hasso Plattner, Dietmar Hopp, Hans -Werner Hector and Klaus Tschira, which had also left early 1972 IBM to develop a standard software for real -time processing co- founded the five in Weinheim, the software company System Analysis and program development, from the 1988 SAP AG. Wellenreuther was particularly responsible for the architecture and the concept of the financial accounting module of SAP R / 2.

Wellenreuther left the company in 1980 for health reasons. He received as compensation a million DM

In 1982, he founded the company DCW Software ( Dr. Claus Wellenreuther GmbH & Co. KG ), which he expanded into a specialist for medium-sized ERP software. In 2003 the company was acquired by SAP. The "Deal with Friends" designated adoption angered many DCW customers who had deliberately opted for an alternative to SAP software. In 2004 the company was merged with the Steeb.