Tadeusz Lisicki

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Tadeusz Lisicki (*  1910 ; †  1991 ) was a Polish officer and author .

Life

During the Second World War , Tadeusz Lisicki served in the Polish army in exile . With the rank of captain (Polish captain ) he was company commander of an intelligence company of the 1st Danzig Battalion in France (Polish 1 Gdański Batalion Łączności ), later in the United Kingdom . Before and during the war, his tasks also included deciphering the enemy, mainly German hand and machine keys . He worked closely with the corresponding French andBritish intelligence services together.

His name can be found (as number 101 under the letter L ) on the " Sonderfahndungsliste GB " (Sonderfahndungsliste GB ) (Sonderfahndungsliste GB ) compiled in spring 1940 in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and found in 1945 in the ruins of the RSHA , by the Allies as Hitler's Black Book ( German "Hitler's Black List " ). This is a directory of the names and personal details of 2820 people who, in the event of a successful invasion of the British Isles (" Operation Sea Lion ") by the German Wehrmacht , were to be tracked down and arrested by special units of the SS .  

After the war and his retirement as an officer with the rank of colonel (Polish: Pułkownik ), Tadeusz Lisicki lived in England . In 1974 he contacted the American historian and cryptologist David Kahn . He informed him that Henryk Zygalski , one of the three original Enigma code breakers along with Marian Rejewski and Jerzy Różycki and inventor of the perforated sheets named after him, lived in Liss , about 75 km southwest of London . Lisicki and Kahn visited Henryk Zygalski on July 29, 1974. So they and the world learned firsthand how the Poles had already managed to break the seemingly “ unbreakable ” German Enigma machine in the early 1930s .

Tadeusz Lisicki passed on the anecdote that offers a possible explanation for the naming of the Polish Bomba kryptologiczna (Polish for "cryptological bomb") developed by the Polish cryptanalysts in 1938. Accordingly, Rejewski and his colleagues Różycki and Zygalski had just eaten an ice bomb in a café while he was formulating the idea for the machine.

Fonts

  • The performance of the Polish deciphering service in solving the method of the German "Enigma" radio key machine in J. Rohwer and E. Jäkel: The radio intelligence and its role in World War II , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1979, pp. 66-81 (contains on Page 66 a portrait photo of Tadeusz Lisicki). PDF; 1.7 MB . Retrieved May 16, 2017.
  • with Józef Garliński : The Enigma War - The inside story of the German Enigma Codes and how the Allies broke them. Encore Editions, 1980, ISBN 978-0684175379 .
  • As pikowy i inne opowiadania ( German  Pik-As and other stories ). Polska Fundacja Kulturalna ( German  Polish Cultural Foundation ), 1990, ISBN 0850652049 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedrich L. Bauer: Historical Notes on Computer Science . Springer, Berlin 2009, p. 295. ISBN 3-540-85789-3 .
  2. ^ Tadeusz Lisicki: The performance of the Polish deciphering service in solving the process of the German "Enigma" radio key machine in J. Rohwer and E. Jäkel: The radio clearing up and its role in the Second World War , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1979, p. 66. PDF; 1.7 MB . Retrieved May 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Entry "L101 Lisicki" in "Hitler's Black Book" . Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ David Kahn: How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy, Cryptologia, 34: 1, p. 19, 2009, doi: 10.1080 / 01611190903385019
  5. ↑ David Link: Resurrecting Bomba Kryptologiczna: Archeology of Algorithmic Artefacts, I , Cryptologia, 33: 2, 168, 2009, doi: 10.1080 / 01611190802562809
  6. ^ Władysław Kozaczuk : Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two . Praeger, p. 63, 1984, ISBN 0-313-27007-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Lisicki, Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish officer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
DATE OF DEATH 1991