From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gustav Tauschek
Gustav Tauschek
Gustav Tauschek (April 29, 1899, Vienna, Austria – Febru- Trauner, 2007, in German. (Schriftenreihe Geschichte der
ary 14, 1945, Zürich, Switzerland) was an Austrian pio- Naturwissenschaften und der Technik; Bd. 10) ISBN
neer of Information technology and developed numerous 978-3-85499-062-8
improvements for punched card-based calculating ma- Martin Helfert, Christoph M. Wintersteiger: Gustav
chines from 1922 to 1945. Tauschek’s Punchcard Accounting Machines, Proceedings of
the Workshop on Methodic and Didactic Challenges of
Biography the History of Informatics (MEDICHI 2007), OCG 220, Aus-
trian Computer Society, 2007.
During the years 1926 – 1930 he worked for the Rheinis-
che Metallwaren- und Maschinenfabrik (Rheinmetall) in
Sömmerda, Germany, where he developed a complete
External links
punched card-based accounting system, which was never • Gustav Tauschek in the German National Library
mass-produced. The prototype of that system is current- catalogue (German)
ly stored in the archives of the Vienna Technical Mu- • ÖGIG Startseite at www.oegig.at Austrian Society for
seum. In the spring of 1928, Rheinmetall created a sub- History of Informatics
sidiary company that was assigned to develop new • Technisches Museum Wien at www.tmw.at Vienna
punched card-based machines. In the fall of the same Technical Museum
year, the subsidiary was bought by IBM, thereby assuring Persondata
its monopoly on the market. Tauschek was awarded a
Name Tauschek, Gustave
five-year contract and sold 169 patents to IBM in his life-
time. Alternative names
Gustav Tauschek died of an embolism on February 14, Short description informatician, inventor, engineer
1945 in a hospital in Zürich, Switzerland. Date of birth April 29, 1899(1899-04-29)
Place of birth Vienna, Austria
Literature Date of death February 14, 1949(1949-02-14)
Martin Helfert, Petra Mazuran, Christoph M. Winter- Place of death Zürich, Switzerland
steiger: Gustav Tauschek und seine Maschinen, Linz:
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• Austrian inventors
• Austrian engineers
• Computer pioneers
• 1899 births
• 1945 deaths
• People from Vienna
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