Dietmar Hopp is a German software engineer and billionaire businessman, born in 1940 and raised in the village of Hoffenheim in Baden-Württemberg. After studying telecommunications engineering in Karlsruhe he worked as a software developer and consultant at IBM. In 1972 he founded the software company SAP with four former IBM colleagues, Hans Werner Hector, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther and Hasso Plattner. He was chief executive of SAP from 1988 until 1998, then chairman of its supervisory board until 2003, and he kept about ten percent of the shares afterward. He is the chief financial backer of the football club TSG Hoffenheim and funds the Dietmar Hopp Foundation, which supports medicine and education in the Rhine-Neckar region.
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German software engineer
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He was one of the founders of SAP SE in 1972
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In 1972, he founded SAP SE with four other former IBM colleagues
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He remained CEO of SAP SE (then SAP AG) from 1988 until 1998
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German software engineer and billionaire businessman
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He was one of the founders of SAP SE in 1972
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