Rudolf Hentze
Ferdinand August Rudolf Hentze (born June 12, 1888 in Kassel ; † November 8, 1960 there ) was a German officer in the Wehrmacht and during the Second World War head of Group IV ( cryptanalysis ) at the General of Intelligence (GdNA) , an office of the High Command of the Army (OKH) .
Life
Rudolf Hentze is a descendant of the Hessian court garden director Wilhelm Hentze (1793–1874). He received his doctorate in Marburg in 1934 on the subject of "The development phases of adolescence from the point of view of type theory ". During World War II he served as an officer in the German army and was in 1944 with the rank of Major chief of Kryptanalysegruppe the gDNA responsible for six main papers and various lectures aimed at deciphering the encrypted who specialized hostile message traffic. This included the successful break of different manual and machine key procedures , such as the American rotor cipher machine M-209 .
Immediately after the war, in September 1945, he was interrogated by the American TICOM (Target Intelligence Committee) regarding the war-related activities of his agency. The associated interrogation protocols, which used to be classified as Top Secret , are now publicly available (see web links ). In the post-war years, Rudolf Hentze wrote several school textbooks on mathematics.
Fonts (selection)
- The development phases of adolescence from the point of view of type theory . Dissertation, Marburg, 1934.
- with Erich Rudolf Jaensch : Basic Laws of Youth Development . Barth, Leipzig, 1939.
- with Eberhard von Hanxleden and Herbert Baldermann : Textbook of Mathematics for Real and Middle Schools. Part 2, Year 6 , 1954.
- with Eberhard von Hanxleden and Herbert Baldermann: Textbook of Mathematics for Real and Middle Schools. Part 3, Year 7 , 1955.
- with Eberhard von Hanxleden: Textbook of mathematics for higher educational institutions . Vieweg & Son , Braunschweig, Berlin, Stuttgart, 1956.
Web links
- Publications by Rudolf Hentze ( Memento from May 19, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
- Army Security Agency : Notes on German High Level Cryptography and Cryptanalysis . European Axis Signal Intelligence in World War II, Vol 4, Washington (DC), May 1946. PDF; 7.5 MB (English). Retrieved May 19, 2016.
- Interrogation of Major Dr. Rudolf Hentze. Head of Group IV (Cryptanalysis). General of intelligence. TICOM / I-113. Sep 1945. View in the Internet Archive (English). Accessed: June 23, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register of the registry office Kassel No. 2715/60.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hentze, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hentze, Ferdinand August Rudolf (full name); Hentze, Rudolf Dr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer and cryptanalyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1960 |
| Place of death | kassel |