Antoni Palluth

Antoni Palluth (11 May 1900, Pobiedziska, Province of Posen - 18 April 1944), was a civilian employee in the German section (BS-4) of the Polish General Staff's interbellum Cipher Bureau.

Life

Palluth was a civil-engineer 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. The students included future Cipher Bureau civilian employees Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski.^[1]

In the 1930's, Palluth was one of the four directors of the AVA Radio Company in Warsaw, which produced cryptologic equipment designed by the Cipher Bureau.^[2]

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, its German section's chief, Major Maksymilian Ciężki, and civilians Edward Fokczyński and Kazimierz Gaca.^[3]

Palluth died during an Allied air raid at the German Sachsenhausen concentration camp.^[4]

See also

• Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau)
• Marian Rejewski
• Enigma machine
• Cryptanalysis of the Enigma
• Ultra

Notes

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.