Günther Leue
Günther Leue (born June 30, 1924 in Braunschweig ; † April 1, 2010 in Haunetal near Fulda ) was a German management consultant and IT entrepreneur. He is considered a German mailbox pioneer and one of the champions for the liberalization of telecommunications in Germany. He was also an advocate of the unconditional basic income (BGE).
Life
Leue completed a degree in physics and business administration in Braunschweig. His first job was in 1954 at Univac . He worked there for 16 years, including as sales director and one and a half years as international marketing manager in the USA.
In 1970 he was commissioned as managing director to set up Diebold Deutschland GmbH, the German branch of management consultant John Diebold . During this time he was largely responsible for the Diebold research program. He also organized the first Systems '71 congress for the Munich trade fair company.
In 1976 he started his own business as a management consultant in Haunetal . During this time he was mainly responsible for the introduction of the EAN code in German retail as technical advisor to the Centrale for Coorganization . He devoted a large part of his consulting duties to the emerging personal computer industry, where he reported on developments in the emerging Silicon Valley on behalf of most German manufacturers of medium-sized data technology .
In 1981, he and his son Christian Leue founded IMCA Mikrocomputer GmbH (renamed GeoNet Systems GmbH a few years later ), one of the first international computer networks and one of the first networks of the early 1980s to provide a comprehensive platform for e-mail, fax, telex, Teletex, Btx, X.400, SMS, Pager, Voice and Inmarsat-C bot.
The legal trick of founding the Association for the Promotion of Telecommunications (VFTK) to allow the operation of computer networks contrary to the postal monopoly , since the basic right of freedom of association was settled above the law of telecommunications, went back to Leue . GeoNet emerged from the beginnings of the mailbox scene.
Günther Leue was made an honorary member of the Chaos Computer Club in 1999 . In 1986, Wirtschaftswoche called him the “German e-mail pope”. He maintained friendly relationships with, among others, Henry F. Sherwood (he wrote the foreword to the Zack Gardens Sherwood biography), Heinz Nixdorf and Konrad Zuse .
literature
- The mastermind. In: Capital, Volume 26, pp. 278 ff. Capital Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1987.
- Steve Woolgar: Virtual society? Technology, cyberbole, reality. University Press, Oxford 2002. pp. 270 f. ISBN 0-19-924876-1 .
Web links
- Memorial website with Leue's last published series of articles
- Photos from the award of the CCC honorary membership (in Haunetal and in the Konrad-Zuse-Museum in Hünfeld)
- Curse of early birth - a visit to Günther Leue, the inventor of the Geonet , Der Spiegel , March 1, 1996
- Haunetaler Günther Leue: Without him there would be no electronic mail , plain text (New weekly newspaper for Hersfeld-Rotenburg), 2010
- What was. What will. , Heise online , May 2, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günther Leue: Without him there would be no electronic mail ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Telemat: Günther Leue, last publication
- ↑ author profile at Grin.com
- ↑ Heise, WW.WW on the death of Günther Leue
- ^ A b Zack Carden: The Secret Files of Henry F. Sherwood: A Comprehensive Biography of a Pioneer Computer Genius, and CIA Spy , iUniverse- Verlag, New York 2005, ISBN 0-595-36532-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leue, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German management consultant and IT entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 2010 |
| Place of death | Haunetal near Fulda |