Lorenz Hanewinkel

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.