German software developer, physicist and author
Georg C. F. Greve
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Born
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1973-03-10
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10 March 1973
(age 51)
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Nationality
| German
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Alma mater
| University of Hamburg
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Occupation(s)
| Co-Founder and President at Vereign,
[1]
Founding President (until 2009) and Director at
FSFE
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Georg C. F. Greve
(born 10 March 1973 in
Helgoland
, Germany) is a software developer, physicist, author and currently co-founder and president at Vereign.
[1]
He has been working on technology politics since he founded the
Free Software Foundation Europe
(FSFE) in 2001.
Greve has been working full-time as president for FSFE since early 2001. In June 2009, he handed over the presidency of the FSFE to Karsten Gerloff.
[2]
His responsibilities for FSFE included coordination of the general assembly, supporting local representatives in their work, working on political and legal issues as well as projects and giving speeches or informing journalists to spread knowledge about
free software
.
In addition, Georg Greve also worked as a consultant, representing
Google
in the
OOXML
standardisation process at
ISO
[
citation needed
]
and as a project reviewer for the
European Commission
.
[
citation needed
]
Greve is married and lives in Switzerland.
[3]
In 2010 Greve was awarded the
Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
(Verdienstkreuz am Bande).
[4]
Career
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Greve has a degree of physics in
biophysics
, with
physical oceanography
and
astronomy
as minor fields of study from the computer science department of the
University of Hamburg
. His interdisciplinary diploma thesis was written in the field of
nanotechnology
on
scanning probe microscopy
.
Greve's first software development was when he was 12 years old. His first publication of a program was in a professional journal in 1992. He partly financed his studies when he managed the software development to evaluate
SQUID
-sensor data in the biomagnetometic laboratory at the
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
in
Hamburg
, Germany.
In 1993 he came across
free software
, the
GNU Project
and
Linux
. In 1998, he was the European speaker for the
GNU Project
[
citation needed
]
and began writing the "Brave GNU World",
[5]
a monthly column on free
computer
software
featuring interesting
GNU
projects each month. It was published on the Internet in as many as ten languages, and in international printed magazines including the German
Linux-Magazin
. The name
Brave GNU World
is a reference to
Aldous Huxley
's
novel
Brave New World
.
In early 2001, he initiated the
Free Software Foundation Europe
(FSFE or FSF Europe), the first
Free Software Foundation
outside the United States of America and, as of 2007
[update]
, the only transnational Free Software Foundation. Greve was invited as an expert to the "Commission on Intellectual Property Rights" of the
UK government
,
[
citation needed
]
and represented the coordination circle of German
civil society
during the first phase of the
United Nations
(UN)
World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS) as part of the
German governmental
delegation.
[
citation needed
]
He has also networked
[
vague
]
with civil society
working groups
at the European level as well as for the thematic working group on
patents
,
copyrights
,
trademarks
(PCT) and free software.
[
citation needed
]
Between 2010 and 2017, he was
CEO
as well as
president
and, later, member of the
board
for Kolab Systems AG in
Kusnacht
,
Switzerland
, the developers of the
Kolab
server.
[6]
In late 2017, Greve co-founded a company called Vereign to enable authentic communication through blockchain federated networks with Claus H. Bressmer.
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[7]
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