Alfons Rissberger

Alfons Rissberger (born May 25, 1948 in Worms) is a German entrepreneur, business consultant and author as well as initiator and founding board member of the biggest initiative between politics and economy for Germany's digital future.[1]

Alfons Rissberger
Born (1948-05-25) May 25, 1948
Worms, Germany
EducationTechnische Universität Darmstadt (M.A.)
OccupationInitiator and founding board member of Initiative D21
Spouse(s)married
Childrentwo
Websitewww.rissberger.de

Life

Since 43 years Rissberger has been a consultant for politics and economy with a focus on success and efficiency in the IT-age, especially regarding IT usage in management and education. In 1987 he was the first German scientist who was responsible for a model experiment by the Federal-State-Commission for education management and research support (BLK)[2] which looked at e-learning at an elementary school. From 1985 until 1993 Rissberger was responsible for IT basic education (ITG) and e-learning in the educational system of the Rhineland-Palatinate ministry of education and cultural affairs. From 1993 until 2005 he was managing director of DVZ Datenverarbeitungszentrums Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH (data processing center) and since that time he owns the business Rissberger Strategie Consulting in Hamburg and Schwerin.

He is married for the second time. He has two children with his first wife.

After an apprenticeship in television technology-craftsmanship he studied electrical engineering, computer sciences and vocational education - with a focus on educational psychology and political sciences – in Frankfurt and Darmstadt. He holds a diploma in engineering and completed the first and second state examination in vocational education.

As son of a locksmith he financed his studies by working as a night cargo workman at Frankfurt Airport and by setting up informatics-course-systems at the community colleges Frankfurt-Höchst and Worms, his hometown. The concept of these informatics-courses was the foundation for recommendations by the Gesellschaft für Informatik ("German Informatics Society") and by the Deutsche Volkshochschul-Verband e.V. ("German Community Collage Union") for vocational education.

From 1970 until 1991 he pursued teaching and leading activities in the school and college domain as well as in the area of advanced training of executive managers in the economy. His focus was applied informatics; among others from 1979 until 1991 as college professor in the areas informatics, trade, foreign business, taxation and tourism at the University of Applied Sciences of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, located in Worms. He lectured for 10 years at the BASF-Führungskolleg at the University Seminary of Economy in the water castle Gracht in Liblar near Cologne.

Since 1974 Rissberg is consultant for politics and economy with an emphasis on success and efficiency in the IT-age. He is surveyor at the Enquete-Komission Deutschlands Weg in die Informationsgesellschaft (Enquete-Commission Germany's path to an information society) of the German Bundestag, he is a member of the science advisory council of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, he is initiator and chairman of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern multimedia advisory council, he is leader and initiator of various research projects in the area of e-learning, he is initiator and author of television and video productions as well as initiator and author of textbooks and numerous other publications.

From 1985 until 1993 Rissberger headed up the department for new information and communication technologies at the Ministry of Education, Science and Advanced Training Rheinland-Pfalz in Mainz. He was responsible for the introduction of IT basic education in secondary education in all public schools within the state. He is also editor of the first German IT basic education schoolbook published by Klett-Verlag. Rissberger was initiator and leader of a number of German and European first-time BLK-model-experiments in the area of e-learning. He is idea generator for new school formats (such as the technical collage for informatics) and for new vocational training areas.

In 1994 he was initiator of the Berlin memorandum Aktiver Lernen: Multimedia für eine bessere Bildung (active learning: multimedia for a better education).[3]

In 1999 he was idea generator and founding board member of Initiative D21 with chancellor Gerhard Schröder as chairman of the advisory council.

From 2001 until 2005 Rissberger was founder and managing director of DVZ Consulting GmbH in Schwerin.

In 2001 Rissberger had demanded a focused national project "e-learning in the German-speaking educational system" with a concept for the first virtual University in Germany "VirtuS- Virtual University Schwerin",[4][5][6] but the project did not yet come about (effective: 2016).

In 2007 he was initiator and co-editor of the Berlin memorandum "VirtusD Virtuelle Universität Deutschland – E-Learning für eine bessere Bildung an den Hochschulen" (VirtusD Virtual University Germany – e-learning for a better education at Universities).[7]

Since 2006 he owns Rissberger Strategie Consulting in Hamburg and Schwerin.

Since 1976 he is a social democrat and was party leader and fraction speaker in his former hometown Worms-Horchheim.

Projects
  • 2007 initiator and co-editor of the Berlin memorandum "VirtusD Virtuelle Universität Deutschland" (VirtusD Virtual University Germany)
  • 1999 idea generator and founding board member of Initiative D21 (today: biggest European partnership between politics and economy)
  • 1998 initiator and leader of the "IIR-Seminar Informationstechnologie für Führungskräfte" (IIR Seminar Information Technology for Managers)
  • 1994 Co-author of the Berliner Memorandum Multimedia für eine bessere Bildung (Berlin memorandum multimedia for better education)
  • 1991 BLK-model-experiment CLIP (Computer supported learning in primary education; first model-experiment in Germany at primary schools on the basis of Windows)
  • 1988 BLK-model-experiment CULAS (Computer supported learning at public schools; first model-experiment in Germany on the basis of MS-DOS)
  • 1987 BLK-model-experiment TOAM (first model-experiment in Europe about the usage of computer supported learning systems at all public schools including primary schools)
  • 1987 initiator and editor of the first German IT basic education schoolbook published by Klett-Verlag
  • 1986 initiator and co-author of the video production Computers in the work environment of the German Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes
  • 1985 BLK-model-experiment microcomputers at technical schools (MATS)
  • 1985 ITG-Schulfernsehen der ARD (ITG School Television, ARD)
  • 1985 BLK-model-experiment Informationsstelle Schule und Computer (Information point school and computer)
  • 1985 BLK-model-experiment Informationstechnische Grundbildung (ITG)
  • 1984 initiator and author of the first German schoolbook on informatics for technical vocations (Teubner-Verlag)
  • 1983 founder and idea generator of the "Höhere Berufsfachschule Informatik" (vocational collage for informatics), Bildungszentrum Worms
  • 1982 initiator of the new vocation "micro electrician" to the federal government (issued 1997)

Literature
  • 1984 initiator and co-editor of the first German schoolbook by "Putkammer/Rissberger: informatics for technical vocations" (Teubner-Verlag)
  • 1986 initiator and co-editor of the first German schoolbook "IT basic education (ITG)" (Klett-Verlag). In 1990 Rissberger had already pointed toward the foundations and effects of e-learning in his "outlook".[8]
  • 1993 publisher of "Abschlussbericht des Modellversuchs CULAS Computerunterstütztes Lernen an allgemeinbildenden Schulen" (final report on the model-experiment CULAS Computer supported learning at public schools), for ministry of education and cultural affairs in Rhineland-Palatinate (by Hase & Koehler Verlag Mainz)

Publications

References
  1. ""Moderne Analphabeten"" (PDF). Der Spiegel. 1994. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  2. "Die BLK: Rückblick auf 37 Jahre im Dienst von Bund und Ländern". Bund-Länder-Kommission. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  3. "Schulen "Moderne Analphabeten"". Der Spiegel. 1994-11-28. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  4. "VirtUS - Virtuelle Universität Schwerin". Rissberger Strategie Consulting. 2001-10-23. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  5. "Berliner Memorandum "VirtusD Virtuelle Universität Deutschland - E-Learning für eine bessere Bildung an den Hochschulen"" (PDF). TU Dresden. 2007-01-13. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  6. "(Vorläufiges) Endergebnis Ende 2012" (PDF). Rissberger Strategie Consulting. 2012. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  7. "Memorandum für virtuelle Universität". Physik Journal. 2007-01-11. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  8. "(Mikro-)Computer: "Dritte industrielle Revolution"?". Rissberger Strategie Consulting. 1999. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
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