Gustav Tauschek

Gustav Tauschek ( born April 29, 1899 in Vienna, † February 14, 1945 in Zurich) was an Austrian pioneer of information technology and developed in the period 1922 to 1945 a number of improvements for the then computing machines based on punched cards. Among his inventions is one of today's historic drum memory.

From 1926 to 1930 he worked for the Rheinische metal goods and machinery factory in Sömmerda, where he developed a complete punch-card accounting system, which was never produced in series. The prototype is now in the archive of the Technical Museum in Vienna. After the Rheinische metal and machine factory in the spring of 1928, a subsidiary for the development of punch card machines, punch cards, Rheinmetall GmbH, founded, this was bought in the same year to secure the monopoly of IBM. Tauschek received a contract for five years and sold a total of 169 patents to IBM.

Tauschek died on 14 February 1945 in a Zurich hospital from an embolism.

In 1964 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the Tauschekgasse after him. Since April 1, 2012 are in the south-east of Erfurt ( research and industrial center southeast) a Gustav- Tauschek Street.