Career
After gaining his Diplom in physics and working at International Business Machines Corporation, Tschira co-founded the German software giant Systems, Applications and Products AG in 1972 in Mannheim, Germany together with Hans-Werner Hector, Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner and Claus Wellenreuther. From 1998 to 2007, he was a board member at Systems, Applications and Products. He died on 31 March 2015 in Heidelberg. The (KTF) was established by Tschira in 1995 as a non-profit organization.
Its primary objective is to support projects in natural and computer sciences as well as mathematics.
The KTF places strong emphasis on public understanding in these fields. Tschira"s commitment to this objective was honored in 1999 with the "Deutscher Stifterpreis" by the German National Academic Foundation (German: Studienstiftung).
The KTF is located at the Villa Bosch in Heidelberg, Germany, the former residence of Nobel Prize laureate for chemistry Carl Bosch (1874–1940). 1995: Honorary doctorate of the University of Klagenfurt.