Karl Ganzhorn

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Karl Ganzhorn (born April 25, 1921 in Sindelfingen ; † August 25, 2014 ibid) was a German physicist who, as the founder and director of the IBM laboratory in Böblingen , dealt with applied physics and computer development and held a leading position in the research management of IBM was active.

Life

Ganzhorn was the son of a weaving worker and obtained his Abitur in 1939 at the Goldberg-Gymnasium Sindelfingen, with a free position because of excellent school performance. After military service from 1939 as an orderly officer in a tank unit in the Afrikakorps and four years of French captivity until 1947 (where he already attended a "camp university" in Algeria), he studied physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and received his doctorate in theoretical solid-state physics with Ulrich Deilinger in 1951 on the quantum theory and electron theory of transition metals, whose lattice structure he determined using group theoretic methods.

After completing his studies, he went to IBM in 1952, where he headed a development team from 1953, which in 1958 became the IBM development laboratory in Böblingen. The IBM 360/20 was developed in this laboratory as part of the IBM 360 series, which went into production in 1964. From 1963 to 1973 Ganzhorn was a board member (from 1967 managing director) for development and research at IBM Germany and director of the IBM laboratories in Germany, Austria and Sweden (the other European IBM laboratories in Great Britain, the Netherlands and France were headed from Nice , where the overall management for Europe was located). He was then director of science and technology at IBM Europe from 1973 to 1975 and vice president of telecommunications systems for the Systems Communications Division of IBM Corp. from 1975 to 1978. (USA), responsible for data communication within the entire group. From 1978 to 1986 he headed the Technology and Research division at IBM Germany. In 1986 he retired. From 1960 (until around 1980) he also held computer science lectures at KIT Karlsruhe , where he was honorary professor.

He has made over 70 scientific publications and held around 50 patents.

1970/71 Ganzhorn was President of the German Physical Society . From 1978 to 1987 he was a member of the German Science Council. He was a recipient of the Great Federal Cross of Merit , received an honorary doctorate in engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1977 and became an honorary senator of the Technical University of Munich in 1982 . He was also the chairman of the advisory committee for the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and for metal research in Stuttgart, the advisory committee of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and that of the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig.

Fonts

  • with K. Schulz, W. Walter: Data processing systems: structure and mode of operation . Springer 1981
  • The historical development of data processing . Oldenbourg 1975

literature

  • Otto Gert Folberth (editor) The concept of information in technology and science: scientific symposium of IBM Deutschland GmbH, December 3rd - 5th, 1984 in Bad Neuenahr (commemorative publication for the 65th birthday of Karl E. Ganzhorn). Oldenbourg, 1986

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The father of the IBM laboratory . In: Sindelfingen newspaper . August 28, 2014, p. 18 ( szbz.de [accessed on August 31, 2014]).
personal data
SURNAME Ganzhorn, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Sindelfingen
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2014
Place of death Sindelfingen