Hasso Plattner

Hasso Plattner ( born January 21, 1944 in Berlin ) is a German businessman and patron. Together with Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Hans -Werner Hector and Klaus Tschira 1972 he founded the software company SAP, today SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany. He was until 2003 chairman of this company and is now Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Life

Hasso Plattner grew up in Berlin -Grunewald, and consistency. His father Horst Plattner (1919-2001) was an ophthalmologist who, Romania came from Sibiu in Transylvania. Plattner at the University of Karlsruhe After leaving school in 1963 telecommunications. He is married, has two children and lives in Altenbach in the Odenwald.

In his free time Plattner like with offshore sailing and golf. Plattner has occasionally been brought into the media with the Oracle founder Larry Ellison in conjunction. Both have an unusual hobby in common, the posting of racing yachts in trans-oceanic races, with Plattner's yacht traditionally bear the name Morning Glory.

Profession

His professional career began in 1968 at IBM in Germany Plattner. In 1972 he founded, together with four colleagues, the company SAP, in 1979, he assumed full responsibility for the technology. Until May 9, 2003 Plattner was next Kagermann Co - CEO of SAP. Since then, he is Chairman. As compensation for his service on the Board, he received a total of 350,000 euros in 2011. He is involved as a founding shareholder of SAP with 8.2 % of the share capital and received solely from the distribution of dividends for the financial year 2010, around 60 million euros.

Plattner is considered, according to Forbes Magazine with an estimated fortune of 8.8 billion U.S. dollars as one of the richest Germans.

Patron of science

Since his retirement from the daily operations of SAP itself Plattner involved as a patron. He is regarded as " one of the most important private supporter of the sciences in Germany ." Entrepreneurial Plattner be engaged for the appointed by him with more than 25 million Euro venture capital funds and incubator Hasso Plattner Ventures, which was founded in 2005 and is located in Potsdam. Interested startups can apply for a contribution between 50,000 and 100,000 euros.

In 1998, Plattner Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam. The sole shareholder is the non-profit Hasso Plattner Foundation for Software Systems Engineering. Plattner undertook to provide the foundation for 20 years more than 50 million euros of his personal assets available. Meanwhile, the commitment Plattner for the HPI has quadrupled and the cumulative amount is more than 200 million euros. The donor finances the HPI not only complete, but he is involved there as head of the department " Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts" in research and teaching.

Early October 2005, directed Plattner with Stanford University, the " Hasso Plattner Institute of Design ," then the he endowed with 35 million U.S. dollars. Scientists from different disciplines to develop user-friendly innovations here. Another commitment Plattner, which promotes science, is the given in autumn 2003 donation of ten million euros for the extension to the library at the University of Mannheim.

For years Plattner South Africa is connected and lives temporarily in the Cape. There, too, he is committed to the research. Two South African universities, the University of KwaZulu- Natal and the University of Cape Town, Plattner support in the fight against AIDS. For " Isombululo ," a program for the prevention and treatment of immunodeficiency disease, he donated six million euros in 2004. The aid project is approximately 360,000 people benefited in the Cape region.

The TIME -Verlag wrote in November 2008 in a special display, "Today Plattner is one of the world's largest private supporter of the sciences ".

Patronage

In spring 2005, Plattner took over the cost of the " 46664 " benefit concert, which took place on his golf course in George, South Africa and was broadcast by TV stations around the world. The proceeds promotes the anti-AIDS battle of the foundation of the former South African president Nelson Mandela. The Nobel Peace Prize, his eldest son had died of AIDS in early 2005, had worn as a prisoner on Robben Iceland during the period of racial segregation, the prisoner number 46664.

In November 2007, Plattner donated 20 million euros for the reconstruction of the Potsdam City Palace, and thus ensured the complete reconstruction of the historic facades of the future Brandenburg state parliament, which had previously been called into question because of money problems. In April 2012 it was announced that Plattner intends to pay a Kunsthalle city of Potsdam, should be seen in the changing exhibitions and Plattner's private collection of East German art.

In February 2013 several media reported about Hasso Plattner has announced to have joined the campaign The Giving Pledge and discard half of his estimated 5.4 billion euros assets want to.

Awards

For his involvement in business and science Hasso Plattner has received many honors. In 1998, the manager magazin the the prestigious " Information Technology Leadership Award for Global Integration" excellent technology experts on the "Hall of Fame". In it, the magazine honors individuals for their contributions to the economic, social and social development in Germany. Several magazines placed Plattner on rank 1 in the list of the most important and influential IT personalities, such as the Time Magazine Europe in 2001 and the Computer Week in 2010 and 2011. Plattner is since 2002 an honorary doctorate, and since 2004 Honorary Professor at the University of Potsdam. The Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences awarded the Berlin-born to be " just as unusual as exemplary commitment " of 2004, the Leibniz Medal. In 2007 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal State of Brandenburg.

At a ceremony in Potsdam on the 60th birthday of the founder on 21 January 2004, the then German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder paid tribute to the work Plattners with the words: " To Germany economically advance, we need a lot of Hasso Plattner's and a lot of SAPs ". Plattner has created a global company with a lot of commitment, thus demonstrating " that German companies can be world-class technology ." Also from the jobs created in Potsdam in 1998, Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering can learn Germany after the words Schroeder.

The University of Saarbrücken had Plattner in 1990 an honorary doctorate. 1994 Plattner there was an honorary professor of computer science economy. The title of Honorary Senator awarded him the University of Saarland in 1998. Plattner Since 2002 an honorary doctorate from the University of Potsdam.

Roland Berger, founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Hasso Plattner mentioned in an interview in August 2004 as one of five Germans, who impressed him the most. Berger called it a " masterpiece " as Plattner SAP founded, built, and have always realigned to the changing market.