Hasso Plattner

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Hasso Plattner

Hasso Plattner (born January 21, 1944 in Berlin ) is a German entrepreneur , co-founder of the IT company SAP and a patron . Until 2003 he was CEO of SAP and then Chairman of the Supervisory Board . His Hasso Plattner Foundation financed the reconstruction of the Palais Barberini in Potsdam, which was destroyed in World War II, with its Barberini Museum, which opened on January 20, 2017 . On the same day Hasso Plattner was made an honorary citizen of Potsdam.

Life

Hasso Plattner grew up in Berlin-Grunewald and Konstanz . His father Horst Plattner (1918–2001) was an ophthalmologist who came from Sibiu in Transylvania ( Romania ). After graduating from high school in 1963, Plattner studied communications engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ). He is married, has two children and lives in Potsdam-Babelsberg .

job

Plattner began his professional career in 1968 at IBM in Germany. In 1972 he founded the company SAP together with four colleagues , where in 1979 he assumed overall responsibility for the technology area. Until May 9, 2003, Plattner was co-CEO of SAP alongside Henning Kagermann . Since then he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board. In 2011, he received a total of 350,000 euros as remuneration for his work on the Supervisory Board. As a founding shareholder of SAP, he holds 8.2% of the share capital and received around 60 million euros from the dividend distribution for the 2010 financial year alone.

Plattner is chairman of the SAP supervisory board. His mandate runs until 2022. Re-elected in 2019 for three instead of the usual five years, these three years should be his last term.

Science promoter

Plattner has been a sponsor since retiring from day-to-day business at SAP . Manager Magazin described him as "one of the most important private science sponsors in Germany". As an entrepreneur, Plattner is committed to the venture capital fund and incubator Hasso Plattner Ventures , which was founded in 2005 and is based in Potsdam , with more than 150 million euros . Interested startups can apply for a participation between 50,000 and 100,000 euros.

In 1998 Plattner founded the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Technology at the University of Potsdam . The partner is the non-profit Hasso Plattner Foundation for software system technology . Plattner pledged to provide the foundation with more than 50 million euros from his private assets for 20 years. In the meantime, Plattner's commitment to the HPI has quadrupled and the cumulative amount is more than 200 million euros. The founder not only finances the HPI in full, but is also involved in research and teaching as the head of the “Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts (EPIC)” department.

At the beginning of October 2005 Plattner set up the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design with Stanford University , which he endowed with 35 million US dollars. Scientists from various disciplines should jointly develop user-friendly innovations. Another commitment by Plattner, which promotes science, is the donation of ten million euros given in autumn 2003 for the library expansion at the University of Mannheim .

Plattner has been connected to South Africa for years and sometimes lives on the Cape. There, too, he is committed to research. Plattner supports two South African universities, the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Cape Town , in the fight against AIDS. In 2004 he donated six million euros for “Isombululo”, a program for the prevention and treatment of immunodeficiency diseases. The aid project benefits around 360,000 people in the Cape region.

In July 2018 Plattner donated 4.2 million euros to the Lucian-Blaga University (ULBS) in Sibiu , Romania, the city of origin of his parents. With the donation, an institute comparable to the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam will be founded.

Patronage

In the spring of 2005, Plattner paid for the “ 46664 ” benefit concert, which took place on his golf course in George , South Africa and was broadcast worldwide by television stations. The proceeds will support the anti- AIDS campaign run by the former South African President Nelson Mandela's foundation . The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, whose son Makgatho Mandela died of AIDS in early 2005, was a prisoner on Robben Island during the period of racial segregation and carried prisoner number 46664.

In November 2007, Plattner donated 20 million euros for the reconstruction of the Potsdam City Palace, thus guaranteeing the complete reconstruction of the historic facades of the Brandenburg State Parliament, which had previously been questioned due to lack of money. In April 2012 it became known that Plattner intends to donate an art gallery to the city of Potsdam, in which changing exhibitions as well as Plattner's private collection of GDR art are to be seen. The art gallery was opened in January 2017 under the name Museum Barberini in the rebuilt Barberini Palace. With the Minsk Museum, another of his museums for contemporary art is in the making.

In February 2013, several media reported that Hasso Plattner had announced that he had joined The Giving Pledge campaign and that he wanted to give up half of his assets, estimated at 5.4 billion euros.

Awards

Hasso Plattner has received many honors for his commitment to business and science. In 1998 manager magazin accepted the technology expert, who had received the prestigious “Information Technology Leadership Award for Global Integration”, into the “Hall of Fame”. In it, the magazine honors personalities for their services to economic, societal and social development in Germany. Several magazines placed Plattner at number 1 on the list of the most important and influential IT personalities, such as Time Magazine Europe in 2001 and Computerwoche in 2010 and 2011. Plattner has been an honorary doctor since 2002 and an honorary professor at the University of Potsdam since 2004 . The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences awarded the native of Berlin the Leibniz Medal in 2004 for his “unusual and exemplary commitment” . In 2007 he received the Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg .

At a ceremony in Potsdam on the 60th birthday of the founder on January 21, 2004, the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder paid tribute to Plattner's work with the words: "To advance Germany economically, we need a lot of Hasso Plattners and a lot of SAPs". Plattner has created a global corporation with great dedication, thereby proving that “German companies can be world leaders in terms of technology”. Germany can also learn from the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software System Technology.

The University of Saarland had already made Plattner an honorary doctorate in 1990. In 1994 Plattner became honorary professor for business informatics there. The University of Saarland awarded him the title of Honorary Senator in 1998. Plattner has been an honorary doctor of the University of Potsdam since 2002 and of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2020 .

Roland Berger , founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants , named Hasso Plattner in an interview in August 2004 as one of the five Germans who impressed him the most. Berger described how Plattner founded and built SAP as a “masterpiece”, and how he always reoriented SAP to the changing market.

In 2014 Hasso Plattner received the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award in the “Thought Leadership” category.

In 2015 Hasso Plattner received the GABA Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2016 he received the Prize for Understanding and Tolerance for his foundation work to promote science and for his "entrepreneurial innovation", as well as "social and cultural projects" initiated by him; The award is given by the Jewish Museum Berlin . The city of Potsdam granted him honorary citizenship in September 2016 . The award ceremony took place on January 19 of the following year, just before the opening of the Barberini Museum.

For 2018 Plattner was awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring .

Positions

Plattner is critical of the political discussions about limiting bonus payments for managers. In mid-2017 he took the view that manager remuneration in Germany had to be aligned with the global market in order to remain internationally competitive . According to Plattner, however, new regulations are complicated because corporate governance guidelines , transatlantic competition and long-term employment prospects have to be kept in mind. With a view to criticism of the manager remuneration at SAP, Plattner signaled at the end of 2017 that he wanted to make it more transparent.

In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Plattner criticized a planned wealth tax and threatened to move out of Germany.

capital

The American business magazine Forbes listed Plattner in 2018 with an estimated fortune of 12.7 billion US dollars as 116th of the richest people in the world and 10th of the richest people in Germany . Plattner said in an interview at the end of 2019 that he would have to leave Germany if a two percent wealth tax was introduced .

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Honorary doctorate for Hasso Plattner - ceremony on July 5, 2002 at the University of Potsdam. idw, June 25, 2002
  2. ↑ SAP Annual Report 2003 (PDF; 3.7 MB) p. 12.
  3. ↑ SAP Annual Report 2011
  4. ↑ Hasso Plattner controls SAP for another three years. In: Manager Magazin. May 15, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Patrons. Plattner lets euros rain on Potsdam. In: manager magazin . November 5, 2004.
  6. ↑ Hasso Plattner Ventures (HPV) ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English); As of November 8, 2014
  7. ↑ www.gruenderszene.de
  8. ↑ Hasso Plattner donates millions for the University in Sibiu. In: sevenbuerger.de. August 2, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ www.art-in-berlin.de
  10. ↑ Or can that go away? In: Zeit Online. October 23, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
  11. ^ Barberini Art Museum: Monet, Rodin and Nolde to begin with. Die Welt online, January 19, 2017, accessed on January 19, 2017 .
  12. ↑ The Giving Pledge: SAP founder Plattner donates his billion dollar fortune. In: zeit.de. February 20, 2013, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  13. ^ SAP Founder Joins Club of Billionaire Donors. In: Spiegel Online. February 20, 2013, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  14. ↑ SAP founder Plattner is giving away billions. In: faz.net. February 19, 2013, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Awarded the dignity of an honorary senator . In: Saarland University (Ed.): Campus . No. January 1 , 1999 ( uni-saarland.de [accessed July 10, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Monika Landgraf: Awarding of the honorary doctorate to Hasso Plattner. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, press release from February 6, 2020 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on February 6, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Many Germans are too full". In: welt.de. August 8, 2004, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Press release: The future of learning is alive: It's all about attitude and passion! HRM Research Institut GmbH, archived from the original on April 21, 2014 ; Retrieved April 20, 2014 .
  19. ↑ GABA Gala Event. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Hamburg @ work: SAP Founder Prof. Dr. hc mult. Hasso Plattner Receives Lifetime Achievement Award. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Henri Kramer and Christine Fratzke: Hasso Plattner is now an honorary citizen. Potsdam Latest News , September 14, 2016, accessed January 19, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Peer Straube: The mysterious benefactor. Hasso Plattner becomes an honorary citizen of Potsdam. Potsdam Latest News, January 19, 2017, accessed January 19, 2017 .
  23. ^ Art patron Hasso Plattner now honorary citizen of Potsdam. Berliner Morgenpost , January 20, 2017, accessed on January 22, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Software billionaire Plattner is honored with Siemens-Ring. In: Focus. December 20, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Hasso Plattner misses embarrassment. In: Handelsblatt. May 10, 2017, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  26. ↑ SAP chief supervisor: Hasso Plattner wants to better explain high management compensation - cio.de. In: CIO. December 18, 2017, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  27. ↑ "Then I have to leave Germany". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  28. ^ The World's Billionaires 2018. In: Forbes. Accessed August 7, 2018 (English).
  29. ↑ The richest Germans. In: Stern. June 10, 2018, accessed August 7, 2018 .
  30. ↑ FAZ.net December 22, 2019
  31. ↑ FAZ.net / Reinhard Müller : Plattner is cowardly (comment)

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DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1944
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