Professor Dr Gerhard Krüger (✝︎)

Gerhard Krüger was one of the pioneer researchers in the areas of process computing and computer-based lab automation, already in the sixties, whilst working at the former Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe. In the seventies, he conveyed the experience he had gained in the area of real-time data processing onto the new domain of software-based Telecommunications (Telematics). He initially created the academic discipline “Telematics” at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), and spearheaded its development into an accepted subject matter at many universities in the German-speaking countries today. With his Institute for Telematics Gerhard Krüger made many internationally recognized, groundbreaking contributions to the development of high-speed communication and of the Internet as such. Another and by no means less important focus of his work has been the early pilot use of personal computers in support of scientific research and education work at universities, as well as their interconnection by means of highly efficient digital communication networks.