Helmut Gröttrup, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German engineer and inventor of the smart card (1916-1981)
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Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Helmut Gröttrup
- Helmut Gröttrup (12 February 1916 – 4 July 1981) was a German engineer, rocket scientist and inventor of the smart card.
- During World War II, he worked in the German V-2 rocket program under Wernher von Braun.
- From 1946 to 1953 he headed a group of 170 German scientists who forcibly worked for the Soviet rocketry program under Sergei Korolev.
- After returning to West Germany in December 1953, he developed data processing systems and contributed to early commercial applications of computer science.
- In 1967 Gröttrup invented the basic principles of the smart card as a forgery-proof "key" for secure identification and access control.
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