Werner Zorn

One of the fathers of networking in Germany, Zorn oversaw the first email link between Germany and the US CSNET in August 1984 and the spread of CSNET in Germany, while serving as Director of the Computer Science Department (Informatik Rechnerabteilung) at the University of Karlsruhe in western Germany.

Zorn also oversaw and championed the development of an email link with China, which became the first email link between China and the rest of the world via CSNET when an email message was sent from Beijing to Karlsruhe and then on to the US and Ireland.