[1][2] Vester was born in Saarbrücken, and studied chemistry at the universities of Mainz, Paris and Hamburg.
Vester's ideas influenced the formation of the environmental movement and the Green Party in Germany.
Vester was known as pioneer of networked thinking, a combination of cybernetic and systemic ideas and complexity.
Vester's Sensitivity Model combines these ideas, and has been used since the 1980s in studies by Ford, UNESCO and other organizations.
A list of his works includes: Vester is also the author of the software tool Sensitivity model and of several cybernetic games: