On 16 May – one day after SAP’s Annual General Meeting – the official farewell to the long-standing Chairman of the Supervisory Board and co-founder of SAP took place in the SAP Arena in Mannheim. GünthGünther Jauch hosted the farewell ceremony, at which Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz also honoured Hasso’s life’s work. You can read the Federal Chancellor’s speech here.
As the photographer commissioned by SAP, I had some special rights, but sometimes had to come to terms with the several dozen photographers and videographers present because there was a lot of media interest.
Among others, SWR also reported on the event (and the back of my head is briefly in the picture at second 5 ;).
‘A great man leaves – and the Chancellor comes to say goodbye’ is the report on the SAP News page, which also features my pictures.
All in all, it was a very exciting day for me and there were many anecdotes from the past 50 years of SAP with Hasso Plattner.
Anastasia as a show act with the SAP Symphony Orchestra was of course also a highlight, although the photos of her are unfortunately not allowed to be shown online (although they turned out really well ;).