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Walter Ernst Fricke

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Cryptanalyst, mathematician and professor (1915-1988)

GermanyAcademicsLived 1915 to 1988 · aged 72
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Walter Ernst Fricke was a distinguished German professor of theoretical astronomy at the University of Heidelberg.

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1974Prix Jules Janssen
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
honorary doctor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Walter Ernst Fricke 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 to 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 in Heidelberg, Germany.

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Germany
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Lived 1915 to 1988 · aged 72
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