Name
Harald Tschira
Primary Residence
Germany
Citizenship
Germany
Source Of Wealth
software
Net Worth
$12,600,000,000
Forbes Profile
Forbes 2019 Billionaires List Rank:
122
Forbes List Rank One: Title
#122 Billionaires 2019
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Summary
Udo and Harald Tschira are the sons of Klaus Tschira, the software pioneer who cofounded SAP (Systems, Applications, Products) in 1972.Klaus retired from the company in 1998, stepped down from its supervisory board in 2007, and passed away on March 31, 2015.He was a trained physicist and hobby astronomer; a small planet between Mars and Jupiter has been named after him.His sons carry on the activities of the Klaus Tschira Foundation, which promotes learning in natural sciences, mathematics and computer science.As of July 2018, the foundation, one of Germany's largest philanthropies, had awarded over $600 million in cash grants and in-kind donations.
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Klaus Tschira's passion for astronomy began at an early age. His classmates at school called him "the planet kid."He liked to experiment in his kitchen and helped create a children's cookbook that explains chemical and physical processes in the kitchen.
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