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Hasso Plattner (* 21 January 1944 in Berlin) is a German entrepreneur. It is married and has two children and lives in crying home old person brook with Heidelberg.

Together with Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Hans Werner Hector and Klaus Tschira he is one the founder of the software enterprise SAP AG in barrier village. There he was also chairman of the board until 2003 and sits now in the supervisory board, whose chairman is he.

Since its retreat from the cash transaction SAP Plattner is in particular active as It applies after medium reports as "one of the most important private science promoters in Germany". Plattner is since 2002 an honour doctor and since 2004 fee professor of the University of potsdam. The University of Saarbruecken had already appointed Plattner 1990 the honour doctor. 1994 became Plattner there fee professor for economical informatics. Those became an honour senator lent to it the university of the Saarland in the year 1998.

In the same year Plattner created the "Hasso Plattner institute for software system technology GmbH" at the University of potsdam. Only partner is the non-profit "Hasso Plattner donation for software system technology". Plattner committed itself to put to the donation over 20 years more than 50 million euro from its private possession at the disposal. In the meantime the commitment quadrupled itself Plattners for the HPI and the amount cumulated lies with more than 200 million euro. The founder does not only finance the HPI completely, but it engages itself there also as a director/conductor of the field of activity "Enterprise Platform and integration Concepts" in research and teachings.

At the beginning of of October 2005 furnished Plattner with the Stanford University the "Hasso Plattner of institutes OF Design", which it equipped with 35 million US Dollar. Scientists of different fields are to develop here together user-friendly innovations. A further commitment Plattners, which promotes the science, is the donation of ten million euro for the library development at the University of Mannheim, given in the autumn 2003.

Business Plattner for the risk capital fund and Inkubator "HassoPlattnerVentures" equipped of him with more than 25 million euro engages itself, which was created 2005 and likewise in potsdam resided.

For its commitment in economics and science Hasso Plattner received many honours. 1998 took up managers the magazine with outstanding "information the Technology Leadership Award for global integration" excellent "technology guru" (Plattner over Plattner) to "resound to OF Fame". In it the magazine honours personalities for its earnings/services around the economic, social and social development of Germany. Time magazines Europe platzierte Plattner 2001 on rank 1 of the list of the most important and most influential IT-personalities. The Berlin Brandenburgi Academy of Sciences lent as exemplary commitment" 2004 the Leibniz medal to the native citizen of Berlin for his "just as unusual.

With a ceremony in potsdam to 60. Birthday of the founder on 21 January 2004 appreciated the Federal Chancellor at that time Gerhard the work Plattners with the words: "Around Germany economically to get going, we need a quantity of Hasso Plattners and a quantity of SAP". Plattner with much commitment a world company created and thereby proven, "that German enterprises world point be technological can". Also of that 1998 in potsdam created Hasso Plattner institute for software system technology can learn Germany after the words The Munich management consultants Roland Berger Hasso Plattner in an interview called in August 2004 as one of the five Germans, which impresses to him at most. In the "world on Sunday" designated Berger it as "master achievement" based, like Plattner SAP, constructed and to the changing market aligned always again.

Plattner was brought in the media occasionally in connection with disputes with the Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Both divide an unusual hobby: the delegation of Regatta yachts into transoceanic running. With various sail activities more frequently times the of both contractors is to have escalated.

Plattner applies for the richest German with an estimated fortune of 5 billion $ according to Forbes as one.

Its spare time spends Plattner gladly with high sea-sails and gulf haven. For years Plattner South Africa is connected and lives occasionally at the chapter is also socially active it there. Plattner in the fight against AIDS supports two South African Universities of, the University OF KwaZulu Natal and the University of Capetown. For "Isombululo", a program for the precaution and treatment of the immunodeficiency illness, he donated 2004 six million euro. The aid project benefits approximately 360,000 humans in the cape region.

In the spring 2005 Plattner transferred the costs of "46664" - Benefizkonzert, which took place on its golf course in the proximity of Capetown and were world-wide radiated over the television. Proceeds promote the anti-AIDS fight of the donation of the former South African president Nelson Mandela. The Nobel peace prize carrier, whose oldest son at the beginning of of 2005 at AIDS had died, had carried the prisoner number 46664 as a prison passenger on "seals Iceland" during the time of the racial segregation.