Peter Dietz

Peter Dietz (* 1933 ) is a German entrepreneur who ran the computer company Dietz-Computer-Systeme in Mülheim an der Ruhr from 1968 until it was taken over by Norsk Data in 1983 . He has been active in the company since it was founded by his father Heinrich Dietz in 1951. The company was most recently one of the ten largest computer manufacturers in Germany with over 500 employees.

Life

Dietz studied physics at RWTH Aachen University and received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Dortmund . In 1968 he became a managing company in the family company for industrial electronics, which under his leadership became a manufacturer of universally applicable medium-sized computer systems. From 1985 he had a teaching position for computer science at the University of Dortmund for many years and also has a consulting company (TakeOff) for startups and venture capital financing with his sons.

He advised the Federal Government and the EU and was the initiator of the founding of Zenit (Center for Innovation and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia) in 1984 and of the private development company Neu-Oberhausen in 1987. Dietz wrote a book about the early years of the German computer industry.

In the second half of the 1990s, he held seminars on business start-ups (“Entrepreneurship”) and artificial intelligence (“Human-like machines”) as a visiting lecturer at the Computer Science Department at the University of Dortmund .

Fonts

• Years of change, InnoVatio Verlag, Bonn, Friborg 1995
• Human-like machines, Telepolis, Heise-Verlag, Hanover December 22, 2003
• Human-like machines, Bühler and Heckel, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-9809237-0-3

Web links

• Biography at TakeOff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography in the blurb on Heinz Hossdorf The experience of being an engineer , Birkhäuser 2003, in it the chapter Computer modeling of the objective world of Dietz