17 Facts About Heinz Nixdorf

Heinz Nixdorf was a German computing pioneer, businessman and founder of Nixdorf Computer AG.

Heinz Nixdorf is remembered as one of the entrepreneurs who, in the 1950s to 1970s, symbolized the German economic miracle.

Heinz Nixdorf was an ambitious athlete and is remembered for his efforts to provide good education to his employees.

Heinz Nixdorf succumbed to a heart attack in 1986 at the CeBIT in Hanover.

Heinz Nixdorf was born on April 9,1925, as the oldest child of five.

Heinz Nixdorf went to a Catholic board school where he first showed his talent for mathematics and science.

Uninterested in becoming that career, Heinz Nixdorf wrote a letter to the Ministry of Education in Berlin.

In 1942, Heinz Nixdorf was drafted by the Wehrmacht and served on the Eastern Front.

In 1951 Heinz Nixdorf started working for the development department of Remington Rand Corp.

In 1952 Heinz Nixdorf founded the Labor fur Impulstechnik in Essen.

On September 5,1952, Heinz Nixdorf hired his first employee, an electronics technician named Alfred Wierzioch.

In 1967, Heinz Nixdorf developed the Logatronic into the Heinz Nixdorf 820 in 1967, which was very successful.

In 1968 Heinz Nixdorf bought Wanderer and renamed the company Heinz Nixdorf Computer AG.

Heinz Nixdorf died of a heart attack on March 17,1986, at the CeBIT in Hannover.

Heinz Nixdorf was invested in the education of his employees, which he promoted with a lot of personal effort and money.

Heinz Nixdorf enabled his employees to exercise physically, offering sports courses and building the Ahorn-Sportpark in Paderborn in 1984.

Heinz Nixdorf played an instrumental role in the building of Paderborn airport, after threatening to move the company to Frankfurt am Main if no adequate infrastructure were provided.