Sebastian von Bomhard

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SpaceNet AG board member Sebastian von Bomhard, Photo: Michael Schmid (2011)

Sebastian von Bomhard (born June 20, 1961 in Graefelfing ) is a German internet pioneer and entrepreneur . He lives in Krailling near Munich .

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1980, Sebastian von Bomhard first studied mathematics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he was active in the Corps Suevia and was reciprocated in 1981. In the winter semester of 1984, he moved to the Free University of Berlin . In the summer of 1984 he studied musicology for one semester at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and became active in the Corps Isaria . In September 1984 he began studying formal logic with Professor Curt C. Christian at the University of Vienna , which he completed in 1990 with a master's degree in natural sciences (Mag. Rer. Nat.) With a thesis on pseudorelative complementary associations .

At the same time, he worked as a freelance programmer , IT planner and lecturer at the Control Data Institute and the Philips Academy . The main focus at the time was the programming languages C, SQL and Unix as well as the Internet in general and database design in particular. From 1989 he also worked as a freelance journalist for IT specialist magazines such as iX - magazine for professional information technology , from 1991 also for focus (later renamed to database focus and IT focus ).

He is married and has three children.

Company formation

In 1986 Sebastian von Bomhard became aware of the Internet while studying at the University of Pittsburgh . A sensor connected to the drinks machine in the dormitory, which shows the fill level and drink temperature via the Internet, can still be called up after his return to Germany, a fact that made a lasting impression on him. "Only when he - back home again - enters the code [...] into his computer and can see what temperature the drink measures around 12,000 kilometers away, does he understand: the Internet will change the world."

As a result, on March 12, 1993, together with six other Internet enthusiasts, he founded the non-profit association "muc.de eV" to promote the spread of the Internet in Germany. “Muc.de wants to bring everyone who wants to go online in Munich. The basic idea of ​​promoting private local data communication was born. ”For the Munich region, muc.de becomes a member of the Individual Network . Shortly after the company SpaceNet GmbH was founded by Sebastian von Bomhard, Axel Bauer and Martin Twickler on December 20, 1993, entered in the commercial register on January 12, 1994, the muc.de association moved from Sedanstrasse to the SpaceNet premises. Sebastian von Bomhard is still on the board of the association. Certain services of the association are still available today, for example the email address muc.de is still in use. The city of Munich was the first major German city to go online with muenchen.de, thanks to an initiative by SpaceNet GmbH and the Munich art dealer Georg Puluj.

SpaceNet GmbH's corporate goal was initially to network companies via satellite. On August 28, 2000 SpaceNet GmbH became a stock corporation, with Sebastian von Bomhard as the board member. SpaceNet AG's company focus today is on hosting and the operation of ISO -certified data centers. In 2017 SpaceNet AG had around 120 employees. The 2016 annual report recorded a gross profit of 11.5 million euros.

Network political commitment

Sebastian von Bomhard was a founding member of numerous network policy initiatives and associations. In 1995 he took part in a meeting in Hamburg in the run-up to the foundation of the Federal Data Highway BDA, which was also considered the initial spark for Eco , the association of the Internet industry. A little later, under the umbrella of Eco, an Internet Content Task Force (ICTF) made up of representatives from politics and the Internet industry was set up, of which Bomhard was also a founding member. Their concern was and is the content-related self-control on the Internet.

In 1995, five independent providers joined forces to form the federal data highway with the aim of improving the network infrastructure in Germany. “The Federal Data Highway was a high-performance network that resulted from the merger of several German Internet services to form a supra-regional virtual and hosting provider. It went into operation as the first nationwide 'Information Highway' in January 1995. ”The SpaceNet company founded by Sebastian von Bomhard operated the“ Auffahrt München ”in this context. "The BDA (provided) the technical framework for the Internet presence of the first news magazine (Spiegel) and the world's first regional daily newspaper ( Schweriner Volkszeitung ) and other providers." The first Internet edition of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit was also available through the BDA .

In 2009 SpaceNet, together with other Internet providers, founded the Forum Provider against Child Abuse on the Internet (FGMB), with the aim of “providing concrete and targeted support to the work of the police in order to arrest perpetrators and thus prevent crimes against children without going directly into Interfere with police work. ”The reason was the planned by the federal government, from Bomhards point of view ineffective blocking of Internet sites with criminally relevant content. On October 25, 2010, Sebastian von Bomhard was invited to a hearing in the subcommittee on new media of the German Bundestag as an expert on this subject.

On April 25, 2016, the Internet association Eco, on the initiative of Sebastian von Bomhard, together with SpaceNet AG, filed a lawsuit against the data retention before the Cologne Administrative Court , and an urgent application was made at the same time. The urgent application was initially rejected by a decision of January 25, 2017, but SpaceNet AG achieved partial success in the subsequent appeal against the decision before the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster. By resolution of June 22, 2017, the urgent application was granted and the company released from the storage obligation. As a result, the Federal Network Agency temporarily suspended the obligation to store data within the framework of the law that came into force on July 1, 2017, pending a decision in the main proceedings.

Committees and associations

  • 2010 Expert at the hearing for the Enquete Commission Internet and Digital Society on the topics of net neutrality - capacity bottlenecks, differentiation, network management of the German Bundestag on October 4, 2010
  • since the founding of DENIC eG in 1996 member of the supervisory board, 1998–2007 as chairman; As a founding member, SpaceNet has membership number 1.
  • since November 2011 member of the media group of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) and of the commission of the media working groups of the IHK Munich and Upper Bavaria
  • since March 2017 member of the working group digital business models, initiated by the Zentrum Digitisierung Bayern
  • Assessor in the session from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2021 at the arbitration board for competition disputes of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria

Awards

SpaceNet Award Gala 2014: Sebastian von Bomhard receives the "Pillar of the Internet" award, (from left to right) Arnold Nipper - Managing Director nIPper consulting, Sebastian von Bomhard, Harald A. Summa - Managing Director eco eV , Photo: SpaceNet AG / Stephan Görlich (2014)

In 2014, Sebastian von Bomhard von Eco, the Association of the German Internet Industry eV, was awarded the "Pillar of the Internet" prize for his long-term commitment to helping to shape the German Internet .

Author and editor

In addition to his journalistic activities for specialist IT magazines during his first years in his career, Sebastian von Bomhard also works as an editor. To mark the fifteenth anniversary of SpaceNet AG in 2008, the company called for a symposium in Munich City Hall on the subject of “15 Years of the Internet in Germany”, which took place in January 2009. Sebastian von Bomhard brought together the memories of the time when the German Internet came into being in the book World Wide Was? Anecdotes and bizarre facts from the pioneering days of the German Internet , which appeared in December 2009.

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of SpaceNet AG, the company presented the SpaceNet Award for the first time in 2013 . Since then, the literature and image prize has been awarded every two years. Sebastian von Bomhard also acts as editor for the publication of the winning texts in the in-house publishing house.

He has been running his own blog at svb.bayern.net since February 2008 and also blogged from 2008 to 2016 together with an author collective that included Tim Cole , Michael Kausch, Christoph Witte, Ossi Urchs and others at czyslansky.net : “czyslansky .net is 42, the answer to all questions that have been asked in vain and therefore rightly forgotten. Except for one: How was it possible that seven so different people with so different experiences, opinions and hairstyles were able to survive the digitization of the world? ”Since 2017, Michael Kausch has continued the blog alone. He also gives lectures on network policy and IT topics. From June 2014 to August 2015 he wrote as a guest author for the business magazine impulse.de .

Publications

  • Sebastian von Bomhard et al. (Ed.): World Wide Was? Anecdotes and bizarre facts from the pioneering days of the German Internet . SpaceNet-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029623-9 .
  • Sebastian von Bomhard (Ed.): 25 years of the Internet in Germany: a quarter of a century "uncharted territory". SpaceNet-Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-944991085 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The term is z. B. used in the SZ: Guido Bohsem: This man complains against surveillance. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 9, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 158 , 1273
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 82 , 1552
  4. ↑ Reference in the imprint of Sebastian von Bomhard's blog svb.bayern.net. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Joachim Kary: Networker with a passion. In: marktundmittelstand.de. December 2, 2011, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Katja Riedel: muenchen 1.0 , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 19, 2013, No. 66, p. R2.
  7. ↑ Sebastian von Bomhard, in: World Wide Was? Anecdotes and absurdities from the pioneering days of the German Internet , ed. by Sebastian von Bomhard et al., Munich (SpaceNet-Verlag) December 15, 2009, p. 53.
  8. ↑ Reference in the imprint of muc.de. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
  9. ^ Frank Müller: A network for the ego and information , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 21, 1997, No. 91, p. 40.
  10. ↑ Europe on the wire. In: The time. January 27, 1995, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  11. ↑ 5 questions to ... Sebastian v. Bomhard. In: Innovative Minds series (ECO). March 23, 2015, accessed August 17, 2017 .
  12. ^ A b Katrin Busch: That was the federal data highway BDA , in: World Wide Was? Anecdotes and absurdities from the pioneering days of the German Internet , ed. v. Sebastian von Bomhard, Munich 2009, p. 101f
  13. ↑ Christian Ankowitsch: The day on which the Countess chose PDS. In: christianankowitsch.atavist.com. March 6, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Official website of the FGMB. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Mirjam Hauck: "Censorship becomes socially acceptable". In: Interview with Sebastian von Bomhard in: Süddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010. Retrieved August 17, 2017 .
  16. ↑ jmb: Experts: Internet blocking does not solve the problem. In: bundestag.de. October 30, 2010, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Background paper on the lawsuit by SpaceNet AG against data retention. (PDF) May 9, 2017, accessed on August 16, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Stefan Krempl: Spacenet and Eco are suing the administrative court against the data retention. In: Heise Online. May 9, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Press release from Eco: Eco supports Spacenet in lawsuit against data retention. May 9, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Stefan Krempl: Cologne Administrative Court does not suspend data retention. In: Heise Online. February 14, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  21. ^ Judgment as scan: Cologne Administrative Court , decision of January 25, 2017. (PDF) Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Martin Holland: Federal Network Agency suspends data retention. In: Heise Online. June 28, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Markus Beckedahl: Monday: Hearing of the Enquete Commission on net neutrality. In: netzpolitik.org. September 29, 2010, accessed September 13, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Proof on p. 9, http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/056/1705625.pdf
  25. ↑ Sebastian von Bomhard: "Net neutrality - capacity bottlenecks, differentiation, network management". In: netzpolitik.org. October 4, 2010, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  26. ↑ p. 10, footnote: http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/085/1708536.pdf
  27. ↑ New structure of the board. In: denic.de. July 22, 1998. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Monika Ermert: DeNIC supervisory board chairman: No desire for government. In: heise.de. March 26, 2007, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  29. ^ RA Florian Hitzelberger: DENIC: Comrades elect new supervisory board. In: domain-recht.de. united-domains AG, May 10, 2007, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  30. ^ The IHK election 2016. Accessed on December 26, 2019 (English).
  31. ↑ 20 years of Spacenet - Eco honors board as a pillar of the Internet . May 27, 2014.
  32. ↑ About us: What is Czyslansky? In: czyslansky.net. Dr. Michael Kausch, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  33. ↑ An overview of all texts by Sebastian von Bomhard on impulse.de can be found on impulse.de
personal data
SURNAME Bomhard, Sebastian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internet pioneer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefelfing