Rolf Heinemann

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Rolf Heinemann (born February 17, 1937 in Magdeburg ) is a German athlete and entrepreneur. He is a multiple GDR champion in orienteering and ski orienteering in his active time until 1970 and since 1990 founder and managing director of "Robotron Database Software GmbH".

Life

Rolf Heinemann grew up in Schönebeck (Elbe) , where he attended the eight-grade elementary school there from 1943 to 1951. From 1951 to 1953 he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter at the VEB Sprengstoffwerk Schönebeck / Elbe. In this profession he worked from 1953 to 1954 at VEB Geologische Bohrungen Gommern. He obtained his Abitur from 1954 to 1957 at the ABF Halle . Rolf Heinemann then studied mechanical engineering technology at the TU Dresden from 1957 to 1963 .

In 1963 he married Ulrike Heinemann (née Schneider), a successful orienteer (GDR champion in OL 1964 and 1968) and settled in Freital . His two sons Ulf (* 1967) and Björn (* 1973) work today as managing directors at Robotron Database Software GmbH, which he founded in 1990.

Athletic career

Rolf Heinemann, 2001 on the Grossglockner
Ulrike and Rolf Heinemann in Bulgaria in 1969 in the jersey of the GDR national team
Rolf Heinemann 2006 at the orienteering in Switzerland

Rolf Heinemann is active in mountaineering and skiing . In Saxon Switzerland climbing region he was from 1955 through Vorstiege with high difficulty known (eg. As Gondakante , Devil's Tower , Wolf tip). As a result, he was appointed to the selection team of the Dresdner Wanderer- und Bergsteigerverein eV (DWBV, later DWBO ) and drove under the direction of Harry Dürichen together with Karl Däweritz from July 11 to August 3, 1959 in the northern Albanian Alps . There they made some first ascents .

With the IX. GDR championships in tourist cross-country skiing (today: ski orienteering ) in Oberschönau / Thür. Rolf Heinemann and Dieter Kaßbaum became GDR champions on February 25, 1961 .

In the early 1960s, he was able to win many athletic competitions, especially cross-country races , against strong competition. The running strengths were shown by personal bests such as the 3000 meter run with a running time of 9:08 minutes.

In 1961, on the initiative of Rolf Heinemann, the orienteering race began in the SG Dynamo Dresden in the tourism section. He led this group as a section leader and trainer. It quickly developed into one of the best known and most successful in the GDR. The 39 championship titles that were won between 1961 and 1983 testify to this, including the multiple individual titles of his wife Ulrike Heinemann, Hans-Dieter Baumgart and Rita Winkler . As an orienteer, Rolf Heinemann himself won several medals at the GDR orienteering championship .

  • Gentlemen, singles
    • 1962 - 2nd place, SG Dynamo Dresden
    • 1963 - 2nd place, SG Dynamo Dresden
    • 1964 - 2nd place, SG Dynamo Dresden
    • 1965 - 1st place, SG Dynamo Dresden
    • 1966 - 1st place, SG Dynamo Dresden
    • 1967 - 3rd place, SG Dynamo Elbe Dresden
  • Night orienteering
    • 1963 - 1st place, Dynamo Dresden
  • Combination night / day run
    • 1963 - 1st place, Dynamo Dresden
  • Season
    • 1965 - 1st place, SG Dynamo Dresden with Günther Stock and Bellmann
    • 1968 - 1st place, SG Dynamo Elbe Dresden with Günther Stock and Hans-Dieter Baumgart
    • 1973 - 1st place, SG Dynamo Elbe Dresden with Rolf Winkler and Hans-Dieter Baumgart

In 1962, Rolf Heinemann was able to qualify for participation in the 1st European OL championships in Norway. However, participation was ultimately not possible for the GDR athletes due to Norway's membership in NATO . The then travel agency in West Berlin did not issue the GDR team with an entry visa . In 1964 there was nothing to prevent a GDR team from participating in Switzerland. Rolf Heinemann finished 22nd at the 2nd European Orienteering Championships in Le Brassus (Switzerland) on September 26, 1964, making him the best runner behind the Scandinavians and the Swiss.

With Hans-Dieter Baumgart, Rolf and Ulrike Heinemann three members of SG Dynamo Dresden were able to qualify for the orienteering world championship 1968 in Linköping , Sweden.

Rolf Heinemann continues to participate in national and international committees of the OL:

  • from 1969 to 1971 - Press Commission of the International Orienteering Federation (IOF)
  • from 1971 to 1989 - chairman of the ZFK-OL of the GDR
  • from 1972 to 1989 - Technical Commission of the IOF
  • from 1982 to 1990 - Chairman of the Technical Commission of the IOF
  • from 1984 to 1989 - Vice President of the DWBO of the GDR
  • 1990 - President of the orienteering association of the GDR
  • from 1990 to 2000 - member of the High Tech Group and the Technical Development Commission
  • from 1990 to 1993 - member of the executive committee of the Deutscher Turner-Bund (DTB)
  • since 1993 - Member of the Presidium of the Saxon Gymnastics Association (STV)
  • from 1995 to 2012 - Vice President of the STV

Rolf Heinemann has been chairman of the "Förderverein Biathlon Osterzgebirge e.V." and initiator of the construction of the Sparkassen Arena Osterzgebirge in Altenberg and its further development. He intensively promotes sport and tourism in the Altenberg district of Zinnwald.

Robotron combine

From 1963 he worked as a technologist at VEB Tabak- und Industriemaschinen Dresden (later NAGEMA ). He was responsible for the mechanical process for recording the checklist and work process data on the basis of punched card technology. In 1965 he was recruited because of this activity for the Institute for Data Processing Dresden, a predecessor of the Robotron combine . Starting in 1969, the training in the IBM technology in the evaluation of the parts list processor BOMP took place here . On this basis, together with Dr. Johann Adam developed the BASTEI system (bank storage of technical information) for the Robotron 300 for mechanical engineering. In 1969 the Institute for Data Processing was taken over into the newly founded Robotron combine. Here he became head of software development in the area of ​​production control with a focus on parts list management.

In 1973 Rolf Heinemann earned a doctorate by the conclusion of an unscheduled postgraduate in the field of development of database software for companies in the manufacturing industry.

From 1974 to 1990, he served as Head of the Department for the development of database software in the Center for Research and Technology and the project Robotron Dresden (RPD), the software house of combine Robotron. From 1974 he relies on the hierarchical data model with the DBSR (Robotron database system). The computer technology available at the time did not allow a relational approach for various reasons. Parallel to the DBSR, from 1980 onwards Heinemann relied on the development of the relational database system INTERBAS , based on the research report " System R " from IBM . In 1980, several departments merged to create the "Databases" division under the direction of Rolf Heinemann. With the development of the first personal computer by the Robotron combine in 1983, the decision was made to adapt the dBASE II system from Ashton-Tate to the REDABAS system .

1985 DEC proposed the introduction of the database system Rdb . Rolf Heinemann stood up for Oracle because he wanted a neutral system that was not dependent on the operating system. The responsible ministry was convinced with benchmark tests and so Oracle 3.2 and later also Oracle 4 was adapted under the name ALLDBS . "ORACLE" is replaced by the word "ALLDBS" in the source code and the first German manual is written. The experience gained in this way later became an important cornerstone for the cooperation with the Oracle Corporation from 1990 onwards. In May 1990, Rolf Heinemann signed a first contract for the conversion of ALLDBS customers to officially licensed Oracle 5.1 customers.

Robotron database software GmbH

Rolf Heinemann at his desk at Robotron Database Software GmbH in 2005

In 1990, after the political change in the GDR, the combine was privatized or liquidated by the Treuhandanstalt into individual companies. The decision was quickly made to found his own company with his colleagues. During a visit to CeBIT in Hanover in March 1990, he tried to win cooperation partners. When he asked in great detail about the database version 5.17 at the Oracle booth, the Oracle employees were amazed and reported this to their boss. Franz Niedermaier, then managing director of Oracle in Germany, heard about the trade fair visit and got in touch with Heinemann in Dresden. This resulted in a friendly business partnership.

Rolf Heinemann founded Robotron Database Software GmbH (RDS) on August 23, 1990 with 7 other shareholders as a management buy-out spin-off from the RPD. Although the shareholders raised 52 percent of the share capital of 64,000 DM, 48 percent of the company was held by the trust. 26 former Robotron employees applied for the takeover and were taken over.

In September 1990, Oracle Deutschland GmbH signed a partner agreement with its East German partner and temporarily (May 26, 1993–2005) even took over a minority stake of 33 percent of the company's share capital, now DM 300,000. As early as 1991, the company's own shareholders bought back the shares in the trust.

  • From 1990 to 1995 first seat of the newly founded GmbH in the building of the former "VEB Robotron Projekt Dresden" in the city center of Dresden

  • From 1995 to 2015 Robotron Database Software GmbH building, Heidelberger Strasse 14, Dresden

  • Company headquarters since 2000, Stuttgarter Straße 29, Dresden

  • Since 2014 company building at the corner of Heilbronner Straße and Stuttgarter Straße, training and conference center (left wing) and offices (right wing)

In April 1997, Heinemann secured the rights to the "Robotron" brand at the German Patent and Trademark Office in Munich. In 2008 his company had grown to 177 employees. In January 2017, a total of 493 were working at Robotron Database Software GmbH and its subsidiaries. In the 2015/2016 financial year, the company had sales of EUR 36.8 million.

In 1995 the company moved to Dresden's Coschütz / Gittersee industrial park ; in 2001 a new building was built on Stuttgarter Straße and expanded in 2009. In 2014 around nine million euros were invested in a new office building including a new training and conference center.

The energy market in Germany was liberalized with the law on the revision of the energy industry law (EnWG) of April 24, 1998. The company succeeded in establishing an energy data management system (EDM) with the name "robotron * ecount" on the market. Today it is used to manage the energy data at electricity suppliers such as EnBW , Vattenfall or RWE and is the market leader in this area for the major network operators in Germany. The company generated around 70 percent of its sales in the energy industry in recent years .

In June 2004, Rolf Heinemann transferred the operational business to his son Ulf.

Awards

In 1971 he received the DTSB badge of honor in gold .

For the development of the DBSR (Database System Robotron), Rolf Heinemann and others were awarded the Labor banner in 1980.

On November 16, 1979, Rolf Heinemann was awarded the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Medal for his work on the development of orienteering in the GDR . For his work in the International Orienteering Federation, he received the IOF's bronze badge of honor in 1981 and silver in 1990.

In March 2007 he received the Saxon Sports Crown as sponsor of the year for support for the construction of the biathlon arena in Zinnwald. In autumn 2007 he was honored with the "Golden Badge of Honor" from the Ski Association of Saxony . Without his help and support, the sport in the Altenberg-Zinnwald region would never be at the level it is currently at. In February 2008 he received the "Optimikel 2008" award from the Dresden Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

In 2010, Rolf Heinemann received an award for his life's work at the award ceremony for Saxony's Entrepreneur of the Year . This prize, which was awarded for the first time, was presented by Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maizière in the Transparent Factory in Dresden.

"" His skill in corporate management, his strategic foresight and, last but not least, his commitment as a member of various professional and industry associations as well as his passionate promotion of popular and competitive sports make him one of those entrepreneurial personalities who are deeply committed to their corporate and social responsibility feel.""

- Laudation at the 2010 award ceremony

With the presentation of the "Joker in honorary office" in August 2012, Rolf Heinemann was honored by the Kreissportbund Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge eV for his honorary functions in sport.

In January 2016, Rolf Heinemann was presented with the citizen's prize in the sport category at Sonnenstein Castle at the New Year's reception of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district . The laudation was given by the multiple biathlon world champion and winner of the silver medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid and current biathlon sports director in Saxony, Eberhard Rösch .

Works

  • "38 years of orienteering in the GDR" - historical data on the development of orienteering in eastern Germany

Quotes

"" I basically kick business consultants out. As an East German, they wanted to explain to me in the early 90s how to eat with spoons. ""

- Rolf Heinemann

Web links

Commons : Rolf Heinemann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Result - Company Cup entry list. (PDF) March 28, 2008, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ 30. LVB-OL, list of results. (No longer available online.) April 7, 2013, archived from the original on March 12, 2017 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lvb-ol.de
  4. ↑ a b c d Wiebke Müller: The Savior of Robotron. In: Bild.de. April 24, 2014, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f 50 years of hiking - mountaineering - orienteering. 1999, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  6. ^ Eckehart Schmidt: Memories (page 45). (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Der neue Sächsische Bergsteiger. SSB, September 3, 2005, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bergsteigerbund.de
  7. ^ A b c Rolf Heinemann: Development of the orienteering section. February 1, 2003, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  8. ^ Förderverein Biathlon Osterzgebirge e. V. In: www.biathlon-osterzgebirge.de. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Plan for weekend houses approved - An almost never-ending story in Zinnwald is drawing to a close. In: Saxon newspaper. September 30, 2015, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  10. ↑ a b Rolf Heinemann. In: http://www.denkfabrik.cdu-sachsen.de/ . Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b Bettina Klemm: Robotron's capable successor - successful company bosses look back on a common past in the former IT combine. In: Saxon newspaper. July 7, 2009. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  12. ↑ a b c Christine Sylvester: gap in the market quickly occupied. In: Saxon newspaper. October 14, 2000, accessed November 27, 2018 .
  13. ↑ a b c d e Christian Fuchs: The defector. In: www.brandeins.de. July 1, 2011, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  14. ^ A b c Nicole Basel: Resurrected from platines. Impulse.de, October 14, 2014, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  15. ↑ a b Robotron - there from the start. (PDF) In: Robotron Magazine. robotron.de, October 1, 2005, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  16. ↑ a b facts and figures, company presentation. (No longer available online.) Robotron Database Software GmbH, February 15, 2017, archived from the original on July 5, 2017 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.robotron.de
  17. ↑ Heiko Weckbrodt: Robotron Dresden is expanding. In: http://oiger.de/ . March 24, 2014, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  18. ↑ robotron * ecount, energy data management for network operation. Robotron Database Software GmbH, February 15, 2017, accessed on February 15, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Robotron creates 100 new jobs. In: Saxon newspaper. August 14, 2012, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Lohwi: Wilfried Bock Saxon coach of the century. In: http://www.biathlon-online.de/ . October 7, 2007, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Award ceremony - Saxony's Entrepreneur of the Year 2010. In: http://www.unternehmerpreis.de/ . Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  22. ^ Award winner - Saxony's Entrepreneur of the Year 2010. In: http://www.unternehmerpreis.de/ . Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  23. ↑ WoVo: Without our "Joker" nothing works in the club. In: http://www.dnn.de/ . August 31, 2012, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  24. ^ Silvio Kuhnert: The rain of prizes in Sonnenstein Castle. In: http://www.dnn.de/ . DNN, January 16, 2016, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  25. ^ Rolf Heinemann: 38 years OL in the GDR. (PDF) Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Video (from 0:03:45) on YouTube
personal data
SURNAME Heinemann, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg