Petro Tyschtschenko

Petro Tyschtschenko

Petro Taras Ostap Tyschtschenko (born April 16, 1943 in Vienna ) is an Austro-German businessman and entrepreneur. He acts in the international market, especially in the IT sector. He became known for his commitment to maintaining the companies Commodore International and Amiga Technologies .

Early years and education

Petro Tyschtschenko was the only child of the publisher Boris Tyschtschenko and Magdalena Tyschtschenko, nee. Schmerlaib, born. His father, the son of a journalist who emigrated to the USA , fled the Ukraine via Prague to Vienna during the First World War . Boris Tyschtschenko graduated from Charles University in Prague , then founded his own publishing house in Vienna and married in 1941. After the war ended, in 1945, the Tyschtschenko and their son fled from Russian-occupied Vienna to the American-occupied zone in Bavaria . The Tyschtschenkos were homeless foreigners at the time, so-called displaced persons . Her plan was to emigrate to America to start a new future there. This plan was then rejected when Boris Tyschtschenko went into business for himself in Munich and sold stamps and coins in a shop in Schwabing . He ran this shop until his death in 1985.

Petro Tyschtschenko graduated from primary school and secondary school in Munich from 1949 to 1961. In 1964 he completed his training as an industrial clerk with the IHK exam . Even during this time, Petro Tyschtschenko was interested in electrical engineering and electronics . In his spare time, he tinkered with the first transistor radio sets and sold them. Other positions in the years 1964 to 1982 included a radio rental car company in Munich, 3M in Düsseldorf , the Pegulan works in Frankenthal (Palatinate) and the Felten & Guilleaume cable works in Cologne . Tyschtschenko was responsible for the internal structure and process organization, revision and logistics .

In 1970 Petro Tyschtschenko married his wife Erika and he has two children.

Commodore and Amiga

On October 1, 1982, Petro Tyschtschenko started working for the Commodore company. In the first four years from 1982 to 1986 he was responsible for Commodore Germany in Frankfurt-Niederrad as head of materials management. He set up the Germany distribution center in Braunschweig and organized the service for the Commodore VC 20 and the Commodore 64 .

Between 1986 and 1990 Tyschtschenko was appointed Director of Logistics Europe and set up the European central warehouse in Holland near Rotterdam . From there, Tyschtschenko supplied the eleven European branches with goods. He was involved in the planning and purchasing meetings in Hong Kong and Taiwan , toured the shopping center in Tokyo , which was responsible for the parts supply for the production facilities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines and Europe, and organized the container service for computer parts from the Far East to Europe.

In 1990 Tyschtschenko was appointed director of international logistics and materials management . His tasks now included the global supply of finished goods from Commodore International . Tyschtschenko reported directly to the president of all Commodore companies Mehdi Ali .

Commodore and Escom bankruptcies

On 29 April 1994, the Commodore reported Aktiengesellschaft voluntary in the US bankruptcy on. From then on, the other Commodore branches around the world had to file for bankruptcy. Tyschtschenko was used as confidante of the last Commodore President Mehdi Ali in the companies of France, Hong Kong, Spain and the Netherlands to handle the respective company liquidation. Tyschtschenko was appointed managing director of these branches and had the task of liquidating them. This was not entirely without risk, as the bankruptcy trustees in France and the Netherlands sued the existing management. For 14 years after the bankruptcy, Tyschtschenko still had to attend court hearings in proceedings. These ended in 2008.

Tyschtschenko tried during this time to keep the company Commodore alive. In 1995 he succeeded in winning the investor Escom , who acquired patents and rights for the company Commodore from the bankruptcy court in the USA for 10 million dollars. From 1995 to July 1996 Tyschtschenko built up the company Amiga Technologies under Escom , produced the Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000 device series in France and organized their distribution. Escom also went bankrupt in July 1996, which is why the subsidiary Amiga Technologies also had to go bankrupt. Here, too, Tyschtschenko took over the liquidation of the company.

Gateway

During the liquidation of Amiga Technologies in 1996 Tyschtschenko was able to win Gateway 2000 as a new investor with 14 million USD investment. Tyschtschenko was hired as managing director of the newly founded company Amiga International in Langen and managed the business under Gateway until 2001. Gateway sold Amiga in 2001 to another investor who only operated from the USA and traded Amiga computers gave up. Tyschtschenko sold all existing inventories, liquidated Amiga International, quit and in 2001 founded his own company, Power Service GmbH .

Web links

• Power Service GmbH website
• Petro Tyschtschenko's memoirs - memories of Commodore and the Amiga
• Podcast interview from Retrokompott.de
• Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko on Warsow-Arena.de