Hasso Plattner Institute

For the design thinking institute at Stanford University in the United States, see Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
Hasso Plattner Institute
Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH
MottoDesign IT. Create Knowledge.
Typeprivately financed university institute
Established1998
DirectorTobias Friedrich, Ralf Herbrich, Marcus Kölling
Total staff
389
Students1,000
Location
Potsdam
,
Germany

52°23′38″N 13°8′1″E
AffiliationsUniversity of Potsdam
Websitehttps://hpi.de/

The Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (German: Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH; HPI) is an information technology non-profit company affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Potsdam, Brandenburg, northeastern Germany.

The teaching and research of HPI are focused on "IT-Systems Engineering". HPI was founded in 1998, and is the first, and as of 2018, the only entirely privately funded faculty[1] in Germany. It is financed entirely through private funds donated by billionaire Hasso Plattner,[2] who co-founded the software company SAP SE, and is currently the chairman of SAP's supervisory board. From 2004 to 2023 the institute was headed by Christoph Meinel. On April 1, 2023, a team consisting of Tobias Friedrich, Marcus Kölling and Ralf Herbrich took over the management of the institute.[3]

Lecture halls (old picture without main building in the background)
Campus panorama view
A-B-C building (former main building)
  1. ^ Mallwitz, Gudrun (4 April 2017). "Bundesweit erste privat finanzierte Fakultät an Uni". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  2. ^ roinsider (24 July 2018). "German billionaire makes biggest donation to a Romanian university in 30 years". Romania Insider. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Hasso-Plattner-Institut verabschiedet langjährigen Direktor Christoph Meinel". hpi.de (in German). Retrieved 30 May 2024.