Walter Fricke, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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cryptanalyst, mathematician and professor
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About Walter Fricke
- Walter Ernst Fricke (1 April 1915 – 21 March 1988) was a distinguished German professor of theoretical astronomy at the University of Heidelberg.
- He was a mathematician and cryptanalyst during World War II at the Wehrmacht signals intelligence agency, Inspectorate 7/VI from 1941-1942 (which would later become the General der Nachrichtenaufklärung.
- In 1942 he was transferred to the OKW/Chi Section IIb.
- His specialty was the production of codes and ciphers, and the security studies of Army systems.
- After the war he was director of the Astronomical Calculation Institute (German: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut) in Heidelberg, Germany.
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