Gerhard Friedrich Hund (4 February 1932 – 21 June 2024) was a German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist.
Biography
Gerhard Hund was the oldest son of physicist Friedrich Hund (1896–1997) and mathematician Ingeborg Seynsche (1905–1994). He studied at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (1950–1951) and at the Goethe University Frankfurt (1951–1955). 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 (4 February 1896 – 31 March 1997) was a German physicist.
Mother: Martha Mechthild Ingeborg Seynsche (21 October 1905 – 27 June 1994), was a German mathematician.
Wife: Juliane Hund (née Meyer, 23 September 1928 – 9 December 1999), was a German chess player.
Children:
- Susanne Hund (born 1958)
- Barbara Hund (born 10 October 1959), she is a Swiss chess player and Woman Grandmaster.
- Isabel Hund (born 14 June 1962), she is a German chess player.
- Dorothee Hund (born 1966)
