Antoni Palluth

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Biuro Szyfrów Cipher Bureau edit
Cryptologic methods and technology:
Enigma "doubles" • Grill • Clock • Cyclometer • Card catalog • Cryptologic bomb • Zygalski sheets • Lacida
Location:
Saxon Palace • Kabaty Woods • PC Bruno • Cadix
Personnel:
Maksymilian Ciężki • Jan Graliński • Jan Kowalewski • Gwido Langer • Stanisław Leśniewski • Stefan Mazurkiewicz • Wiktor Michałowski • Antoni Palluth • Franciszek Pokorny • Marian Rejewski • Jerzy Różycki • Wacław Sierpiński • Piotr Smoleński • Henryk Zygalski

Antoni Palluth, born in Pobiedziska, Greater Poland (then in the German Empire) was a civilian employee in the German section (BS-4) of the Polish General Staff's interbellum Cipher Bureau. He was a civil-engineering graduate of the Warsaw Polytechnic. In January 1929, he was one of the instructors in a cryptology course organized by the Cipher Bureau, at Poznań University, which was attended by selected mathematics students including future Cipher Bureau civilian employees Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski.

In the 1930's, Palluth was a director of Wytwórnia Radiotechniczna AVA (the AVA Radio Manufacturing Company) in Warsaw, which produced cryptologic equipment designed by the Cipher Bureau.

In March 1943, while attempting to cross the border from German-occupied France into Spain, Palluth was captured by the Germans along with the Cipher Bureau's chief, Lt. Col. Gwido Langer, the German section's chief, Major Maksymilian Ciężki, and civilians Edward Fokczyński and Kazimierz Gaca.

Palluth died during an Allied air raid at the German Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

[edit] References

• Władysław Kozaczuk, Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two, edited and translated by Christopher Kasparek, Frederick, MD, University Publications of America, 1984.