Horst Goertz

Horst Görtz (2011)

Horst Görtz (born September 7, 1937 in Solingen ) is a German IT security entrepreneur.

Life

Horst Görtz started to work in the electronic data processing industry in 1958 after completing a commercial apprenticeship. In 1974 he became the managing director of the Rhein-Main data center for medium-sized businesses and co-founder and vice president of the European Computing Services Association . In 1983 he founded the company uti-maco Software GmbH for PC programs. In the mid-1980s, together with the Berlin university professor Horst Günther, he developed the access and security software Safe MEN (1986), which was later renamed Safe-Guard . The extended follow-up product Safe-Guard Professional received the Golden Award Software for Europe in 1992 . Under his leadership, the company grew, including through mergers and collaborations as well as the establishment of subsidiaries. In 1994 Utimaco Software GmbH took over the Austrian Safeware GmbH. The conversion into a stock corporation, Utimaco Safeware AG, took place in the same year. Horst Görtz became their CEO for another year. Until 2005 he then chaired the supervisory board.

Awards

• 1996: Entrepreneur of the year
• 1996: EKS award winner
• 2001: University Medal of the Ruhr University Bochum
• 2002: Honorary Senator of the TU Darmstadt
• 2004: Honorary doctorate in engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Ruhr University in Bochum
• 2005: Service Award for Professional Excellence from Rotary International
• 2009: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Foundation, endowment

• The Horst Görtz Foundation , established in 1996 and based in Neu-Anspach , focuses on science and technology in research and teaching in the field of IT security, Chinese life sciences and the support of children with cancer and coma patients. In 1999 she supported the founding of the Horst Görtz Institute for Information Security at the Ruhr University Bochum and from 2006 to 2012 sponsored the Horst Görtz Foundation Institute for Theory, History and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin . Since 2014, she has sponsored the endowed professorship for somatosensory and vegetative therapy research at the Hannover Medical School .

Fonts

• with Jutta Stolp: Information security in companies: Security concepts and solutions in practice. Addison-Wesley-Longman, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-8273-1426-7 .
• Practice of Chinese Astrology: Textbook of Bazi Suanming with many examples of use. Drachenverlag, Klein Jasedow 2008, ISBN 978-3-927369-31-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Görtz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website from Horst Görtz

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement Information Service Wissenschaft dated August 24, 2009 , accessed on August 31, 2009
2. ↑ Horst Görtz Foundation , accessed on June 17, 2014
3. ↑ Horst Görtz Foundation Institute for Theory, History and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences , accessed on June 17, 2014
4. ↑ [1]