Gerhard Hund

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

Biography

Gerhard Hund was the oldest son of physicist Friedrich Hund and mathematician Ingeborg Seynsche. He studied at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and at the Goethe University Frankfurt. 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 in middle management of Bayer in Leverkusen, from 1974 as procurator.
Hund died on 21 June 2024, at the age of 92.

Family

Father: Friedrich Hund was a German physicist.
Mother: Martha Mechthild Ingeborg Seynsche, was a German mathematician.
Wife: Juliane Hund, was a German chess player.
Children:

Susanne Hund
Barbara Hund, she is a Swiss chess player and Woman Grandmaster.
Isabel Hund, she is a German chess player.
Dorothee Hund