Harald Schendera is the founder and chief executive officer of German internet solution provider Schendera Internet Services. Born in Weiden, Schendera is an internet entrepreneur since 1996. ^[undefined]

His father is a retired vocational school teacher, his mother was an office clerk.

He is an editor by profession and holds an engineering degree in interior design from the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s he worked as a newspaper journalist and radio editor.

In May 1996, literally on day one of the commercial internet in Germany, he founded his company, Schendera Internet Services, in Erlangen.

He currently lives in Friedberg, Germany near Frankfurt. He is divorced and has two children. In his spare time, he studies the universe and writes about business opportunities on his blogs.