Alfons Rissberger

In 2007, he started and co-edited the Berlin memorandum VirtusD Virtuelle Universität Deutschland – E-Learning für eine bessere Bildung an den Hochschulen (lit. "VirtusD Virtual University Germany – e-learning for a Better Education at Universities").

He has owned Rissberger Strategie Consulting in Hamburg and Schwerin since 2006.

In 2001 Rissberger 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", but the project was never completed.

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

In 1994, he founded the Berlin memorandum Aktiver Lernen: Multimedia für eine bessere Bildung (lit. "Active Learning: Multimedia for a Better Education).

From 1993 until 2005 he was the managing director of DVZ Datenverarbeitungszentrums Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH (data processing center). Since that time he owns the business Rissberger Strategie Consulting in Hamburg and Schwerin.

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) which studied e-learning at an elementary school. From 1985 to 1993 Rissberger was responsible for IT basic education (ITG) and e-learning in the Rhineland-Palatinate's education system.

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

Since 1974 Rissberg has been a political and economical consultant with an emphasis on success and efficiency in the IT-age. He is a surveyor at the Enquete-Komission Deutschlands Weg in die Informationsgesellschaft (Enquete-Commission Germany's path to an information society) of the German Bundestag, a member of the science advisory council of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a chairman of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern multimedia advisory council, a leader of e-learning research projects, and an author of textbooks, television, and video productions.

From 1970 until 1991 he taught and led activities in colleges. He also provided advanced training to executive managers in businesses. As a college professor, his focus was applied informatics, though he also taught informatics, trade, foreign business, taxation, and tourism at the University of Applied Sciences of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, Worms. He lectured for ten years at the BASF-Führungskolleg at the University Seminary of Economy in the water castle Gracht in Liblar near Cologne.

Alfons Rissberger (born May 25, 1948, in Worms) is a German entrepreneur, business consultant, and author.

Rissberger was born in Worms, Germany, in 1948. His father was a locksmith.