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Lorenz Hanewinkel

Year of birth, place

1931
Heiligenstadt
Germany

Role at the ZKM

  • Artist of the Collection

Biography

The work of Lorenz Hanewinkel is one of the most important pioneering achievements in the development of electronic computing devices. After completing an apprenticeship as a radio mechanic and studying physics at the Technical University of Aachen, he was involved in the practical testing of components and circuits at Zuse KG, which was founded in 1949. Here he constructed an extremely reliable computer based on electric tubes and later semiconductors, the Zuse Z22. Many of his developments, including new generations of office computers and methods for recovering binary functions, led to patent applications from the 1960s onwards. Since 1981, Lorenz Hanewinkel has represented numerous clients nationally and internationally before offices and courts as a German and European patent attorney and has obtained important landmark decisions at the Federal Supreme Court. Nowadays, he researches on the collision of black holes.

 

 

1949

 

Abitur

1949-1951

 

Apprenticeship as radio mechanic

1952

 

Employment as an overhead line technician

1952-1955

 

Study of physics at the Technical University of Aachen, diploma degree in high vacuum spectrometry for UV light

 

Since 1952

 

Teaching activities and publications in the fields of mathematics, physics and chemistry

 

1955-1960

 

Development engineer at Zuse KG, Neukirchen

 

1955-1957

 

Technical development of the Zuse Z22

 

1957

 

First public presentation and series production of the Zuse Z22

 

1961-1964

 

Sales engineer at Valvo GmbH, Hamburg

 

1964-1981

 

Lead developer at Nixdorf AG, Paderborn

Since 1981

 

Activity as independent patent attorney, Paderborn

2010

 

Award of the Konrad Zuse Medal by the ZDB Zentralverband Deutscher Baugewerbe

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