Michael Rotert

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Michael Rotert (born July 1, 1950 ) is a German industrial engineer , entrepreneur and internet pioneer .

Life

Rotert studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe from October 1971 to September 1975 and from October 1975 to August 1979 economics with a focus on operations research / computer science. He wrote his diploma thesis on industrial engineering at the then chair for planning and programming techniques for process computers on the subject of coupling E and O devices to a serial bus system ( PDV bus) .

From 1981 Rotert worked for several years as a research assistant at the Institute for Telematics at the University of Karlsruhe under Gerhard Krüger . There he was also entrusted with the technical management of the computer center of the computer science faculty. He implemented and operated the internet mail server "germany" and thus laid the foundation for the spread of electronic mail in Germany.

On August 3, 1984 at 10:14 am CEST Michael Rotert received the first Internet e-mail in Germany at his address "rotert @ germany" , a message from Laura Breeden ( "breeden@csnet-sh.arpa" ) the American platform CSNET from Cambridge (Massachusetts) for electronic communication by scientists, which had been sent the day before (on August 2, 1984, 12:21 p.m.). A copy of this email was sent to the head of the project, Werner Zorn ( "zorn @ germany" ).

“Welcome to CSNET! Michael, This is your official welcome to CSNET. "

- Subject and greeting of the first Internet e-mail sent to Germany

Rotert established Internet connections in Germany (1984), France (1986) and China (1990). In 1985 he set up the first internet connection for a German university at the University of Karlsruhe.

Rotert was co-founder and, until April 2000, managing director of Xlink , one of the first German Internet service providers , was created as a university project (eXtended Lokales Informatik Netz Karlsruhe), then a division of NTG Netzwerk und Telematic GmbH. In April 2000 Rotert moved to the later parent company of Xlink, KPNQwest in Amsterdam , which was founded in April 1999, as Managing Director and Senior Vice President Research & Development. He was also the managing director of various other service providers and is managing director and owner of a provider for free WiFi. In 2003 he was appointed to the board of GTEN AG, a provider of telecommunications monitoring services.

Rotert is also a founding member of the Internet Society , DENIC and other national and international Internet institutions. He has already been a reviewer for the European Commission for the ESPRIT program for research funding in the field of information technology as well as reviewer for the United Nations and the US Department of Commerce .

In June 1999 Rotert was appointed honorary professor for computer science at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, where he held a teaching position in the computer science department from 1981 to 2015 . In addition, from January 2000 to November 2017 he was chairman of the board of eco - Association of the Internet Industry eV, and since November 2017 he has been honorary president of the association. From 2003 to 2007 Rotert was President of EuroISPA , the European umbrella organization of national associations of Internet service providers. Rotert was EuroISPA's vice-president until 2007, and in 2010 he became an honorary spokesman and represents the association primarily in the field of "Cybercrime" and in dialogue with the Council of Europe , the EU and other associations. He is a member of numerous other committees and advisory boards; For example, he was industry spokesman for the German G8 delegation for the Internet Crime Working Group - High Tech Cybercrime Unit - of the European Union and a committee member of the German Science Council . Rotert is a member of the executive committee of the Federal Association of IT SMEs (BITMi) and a member of the Corps Franconia Karlsruhe .

He is one of the supporters of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

He lives in Landau in the Palatinate and is a father of three.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "1. E-mail"
  2. ↑ "You have mail!" , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Faculty of Computer Science, July 29, 2009
  3. ↑ 25 years of e-mail in Germany - And it made “Pling!” (Spiegel Online) and 25 years of e-mails in Germany - “My e-mail address was 'zorn @ germany'.” (Tagesschau, Das Erste)
  4. ↑ 30 years of e-mail in Germany ( memento from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), eco Verband der Internetwirtschaft e. V.
  5. ↑ The "GTEN AG on Buggedplanet.info"
  6. ↑ Michael Rotert on the board , Computerwoche from September 26, 2003
  7. ^ Directory of Weinheimer Corps Students, 1990, p. 387
  8. ↑ Tobias Roth: Michael Rotert, Internet-Pionier, in: Der Sonntag, August 17, 2014, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Rotert, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial engineer, entrepreneur and internet pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1950