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Heinz Nixdorf (* 9 April 1925 in Paderborn; " 17. March 1986 in Hanover) was a German computer pioneer and a successful entrepreneur. Time of its life it appeared as an employer with social responsibility.

Career/development

1939 - 1942 visited Heinz Nixdorf the teacher educational establishment in Vallendar/Rhine.

1942 were drawn in Heinz Nixdorf to the military service and could only after the end 2. World war in the summer 1946 retrieve its Abitur at the rice man High School Paderborn.

1947 - 1952 studied Heinz Nixdorf physics in Frankfurt. 1951 he worked as a work student at Remington edge and came with the bases of the computer engineering into contact.

1952 broke Nixdorf off the study and created the laboratory for impulse technique in meals. He built the Compagnie of the Machines bulletin in Paris at the beginning of devices for the RWE and developed fast to the supplier of electronic arithmetic units for important office machine manufacturers like Cologne moving he works and.

1959 were shifted the company headquarters to Paderborn.

1960 married Nixdorf his wife Renate, from the marriage came out three sons. The private life of the family remained strictly shielded before the public.

1961 built the laboratory for impulse technique the first own work building in the Pontanusstrasse.

1964 brought Nixdorf out with the system 820 its first self-developed small computer, which made Nixdorf a pioneer of the decentralized data processing and in small and medium-size enterprises with substantial success was marketed. Thereby encouraged, he developed his own sales network starting from 1967, 1968 bought he its up to then largest customer, the moving he works, and integrated her into in the same year the again firmierte NIXDORF COMPUTER AG with company headquarters Paderborn; at the upper Frankfurt one way (today: ) Developed for Heinz Nixdorf ring starting from 1974 ultramodern, also architecturally captivating production plants, which became head office in the Paderauen at Fuerstenallee established and again 1985 extended. The know-how within the fine-mechanical and electromechanical range, taken over by Wanderer, showed up in the outstanding constructional quality of the self-developed and - built peripheral devices and has a lasting effect in the products of the successor companies until today.

1970 began the economically most successful time for the NIXDORF COMPUTER AG. It became into the 70ern market leader in Germany and fourth largest computer manufacturer in Europe with manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland, Spain, the USA and Singapore.

Likewise 1970 were nationally recognized the company-owned vocational school; starting from 1971 were based on Nixdorfs initiative the technical school, the Technical High School and higher Technical High School for applied computer science, 1972 in summary in the education center for information-processing occupations (b.i.b), from which the professional school of the economy came out later.

1986 had the NIXDORF COMPUTER AG of 25,500 coworkers in 44 countries and obtained an annual turnover of 4,5 billion DM. In this year Heinz Nixdorf died during the CeBIT in Hanover.

Further developments

1988 began a fundamental change in the computer and electronics industry, which the NCAG thus did not want to follow. The triumphant advance of the personal computers any longer which can not be stopped did not cover itself with still the quality yardstick given by Heinz Nixdorf (PC held it for unausgereift and dearless designed). Thus after the death of the firm founder from financial reasons the necessity resulted two years to look for a suitable partner.

1990 were summarized the NIXDORF COMPUTER AG with the range data and information technology the Siemens AG in the Siemens Nixdorf information systems AG.

On 24 October 1996 dedicated Heinz Nixdorf museum forum (HNF) in the former administration building of the NIXDORF COMPUTER AG was opened to it, which offers numerous Workshops and lectures to the history of the information and data processing apart from the presentation.

On 1 October 1999 the enterprise was extracted from the Siemens company and taken over partially by the equity investment companies Kohl mountain Kravis Robert and Goldman Sachs Capital of partner. It came also to the change of name to the Wincor Nixdorf internationally GmbH. Since the summer 2004 the enterprise is noted the Frankfurt stock exchange. This enterprise manufactures above all money automats, statement printers and p.o.s. systems.

The PC range firmiert today under Fujitsu Siemens of computer GmbH.

Literature

Brochure "Heinz Nixdorf - life pictures", copyright Heinz Nixdorf donation 2004 to refer as pressure version directly from the donation (left see below)