Rudolf Staritz

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Rudolf Staritz with Lorenz key machine (2007)

Rudolf Friedrich Staritz (born December 11, 1921 in Ziegenrück ) is a German communications engineer .

Life

After attending school in Pößneck and beginning a degree in electrical engineering at the technical college in Hildburghausen , Staritz was drafted into the Foreign / Defense Office in 1940 by the Wehrmacht High Command due to his knowledge of communications . During his military service from 1940 to 1945 he worked as a radio operator, radio instructor and designer of agent radio equipment in the OKW's global radio network under Admiral Canaris and Colonel Hansen .

After the Second World War , Staritz finished his intermittent studies in Hamburg and from 1954 worked for research institutes of the Federal Post Office , for example in the central telecommunications office for amplifier and pulse technology. At the Central Post Office, Staritz contributed to the development of computer peripheral technology and remote data transmission. He was also a member of various working groups on the Space Commission. His research focus in this area was in particular communication via satellite transmission .

In his private life, Staritz devotes himself to the processing and clarification of the activities of Professor Oskar Vierling at Feuerstein Castle in Franconian Switzerland and publishes scientific reports on the history of communications and computer technology. Staritz also owned one of Germany's largest private collections of agent radios and cryptosystems , which can be seen today in the German Spy Museum in Berlin.

In November 2007, the retired communications engineer worked on a new edition of the German-British deciphering duel. He sent an encrypted message from the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum , which was received and deciphered in Bletchley Park , about 70 kilometers northwest of London .

Memberships

Staritz is a member of the German Aerospace Society and the International Intelligence History Association (IIHA). "Rudi", as his radio friends call him, is a long-term member of the German Amateur Radio Club (DARC) and a licensed radio amateur with the callsign DL3CS.

Publications

  • with Louis Meulstee: Clandestine Radio. Wireless for the warrior . Vol. 4, Wimborne Publ. Ltd., Ferndown / Dorset 2004, ISBN 0-9520633-6-0 .
  • with Walter Dieminger, Gerhard Strössner: 60 years of amateur radio broadcasting in Coburg . Coburg 1986.
  • Missile technology . Berlin 1966.
  • Numerous technical reports from the fields of radio technology , space technology and cryptography .

Web links

  • Defense radio - radio defense. Technology and procedures of espionage radio services. Unpublished book manuscript, editorial deadline in mid-1985, revised version 2018 ( PDF; 10.5 MB )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Rudolf F. Staritz lives in Bamberg. As a radio operator he was a member of the secret intelligence service of the Abwehr under Admiral Canaris and, apart from the family, is one of the last contemporary witnesses who Georg Hansen knew personally. The 87-year-old is a popular conversation partner, especially when it comes to radio technology.… He himself was a [agent] radio instructor at the time of the collapse and helped the Hansen family to process the documents. http://www.willy-aron-gesellschaft.de/downloads/FT_FSonntag18072009.pdf  ( page not more available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.willy-aron-gesellschaft.de
  2. ↑ Language is more than words. September 13, 2007, accessed on February 27, 2020 : “The communications engineer Dipl.-Ing. Rudolf Staritz gave a lecture on the decryption of military codes in World War II and on a secret project at the nearby Feuerstein Castle. "
  3. ^ Frank Thadeusz: COMPUTER: The error of the radio operator . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 2007 ( online - Nov. 12, 2007 ).
  4. ↑ Detlef Borchers: Who beats Colossus? In: heise.de . November 15, 2007, accessed February 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Helmut Martin-Jung: Code breaker. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ ABK round. In: DARC-Coburg.de. Retrieved August 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ “This volume is an important contribution in eliminating some of the smaller and larger gaps in the analysis of military and secret service history in the twentieth century. Agent radios from World War II until the end of the Cold War are depicted. ” Archived copy ( Memento of February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Staritz, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staritz, Rudolf Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communications engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziegenrück