Walter Fricke

Walter Ernst Fricke
Dr. Walter Fricke in 1968
Born(1915-04-01)1 April 1915
Leimbach-Mansfeld near Merseburg, Germany
Died21 March 1988(1988-03-21) (aged 72)
Heidelberg, Germany[1]
CitizenshipGerman
EducationBerlin University
Known forWorking as cryptanalyst with OKW/Chi, Fourth Fundamental Catalogue (FK4)
AwardsPrix Jules Janssen of the Société astronomique de France in 1974.

Dirk Brouwer Award of the American Astronomical Society at the Division on Dynamical Astronomy in 1982.

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (First Class) (German:Verdienstkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981
Scientific career
Thesis
  • Influence of a resisting agent in the dynamics of dense stellar system.  (1940)
Doctoral advisorOtto Heckmann

Walter Ernst Fricke (1 April 1915 – 21 March 1988) was a distinguished German professor of theoretical astronomy at the University of Heidelberg.[2] 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. [3] After the war he was director of the Astronomical Calculation Institute (German: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut) in Heidelberg, Germany.

  1. ^ Weilen, Roland; Lederle, Trudpert (1990). "Obituary - Walter Ernst Fricke (1915-1988)". The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 31 (3). London: Blackwell Science: 515–517. Bibcode:1990QJRAS..31..515W.
  2. ^ Wielen, R.; Lederle, T. (September 1990). "Quarterly journal of the Royal Astronomical Society". 31 (3). SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS): 515–517. Bibcode:1990QJRAS..31..515W. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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