Gerhard Hund


Gerhard Friedrich Hund is a German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist.

Biography

He is the oldest son of physicist Friedrich Hund. He studied at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1955 he met his wife Juliane Hund. They had four daughters Susanne van Kempen, Barbara Hund, Isabel Hund and Dorothee Lampe. After graduation, he was collaborator of Alwin Walther at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt.
From 1961 to 1995 he was Chief Executive of Bayer in Leverkusen.