History
The HPI was founded in 1998 as a public-private partnership. Hasso Plattner created the non-profit "Hasso Plattner Foundation for Software Systems Engineering", which is the administrative body responsible for the HPI and its only corporate member. The foundation’s legal status is that of a GmbH, a limited-liability company according to German law. As the public part of the partnership, the Bundesland Brandenburg provided the estate where three multi-storey buildings were built. Half of the 36 million euro construction costs were paid by the European Union, the remainder by Hasso Plattner. Plattner has pledged 50 million euros of his personal fortune over a period of 20 years. Since its inception, Plattner's commitment to the HPI has quadrupled to over 200 million euros. He not only fully finances the HPI, but is also actively involved as a director and lecturer in Enterprise Platforms and Integration Concepts. In 2004 he received his honorary professorship from the University of Potsdam.
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