Claus Wellenreuther (born 1935) is a German entrepreneur and the co-founder of the software company SAP SE.
Career
Wellenreuther was born in Mannheim[1] and studied business administration at University of Mannheim with a specialization in operations research.[1]
He submitted his dissertation on Markov processes and their implementation on queueing systems in 1968.[2] Afterwards Wellenreuther worked at IBM in Mannheim, where he was responsible for developing financial accountancy systems.[3] In 1971 he left IBM to program a standard financial accountancy system with batch processing.