Peter Christian Lockemann (born November 17, 1935) is a professor of computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and was director at the FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe (FZI). He retired in March 2004.

Lockemann is considered a pioneer of business information systems and is involved in the development of databases and information systems. He has published textbooks and over 100 scientific articles.^[2]

Life

Lockemann studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and finished his doctoral studies in 1963 under the supervision of Hans Piloty.^[1] He was subsequently a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Since 1972, the founding year of the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, he has been a professor there, from 1979 to 1981 dean, and until his retirement he headed the group for Information Management Systems.

In 1985, together with several colleagues, he founded the FZI Research Centre for Computer Science in Karlsruhe. He has also held several guest professorships in the USA, including at the California Institute of Technology and at the MIT, and has held advisory positions with industry and ministries.^[3]

In 2003, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Franfunt am Main awarded him an honorary doctorate for his achievements in research and as a promoter of knowledge transfer into business practice. In 2005 he received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.^[4]

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