the Nazi Party in 1941. During World War II, he had no exact knowledge of the messages passed between different parties, and took no part in any matters pertaining to diplomacy. He remained head of the cipher bureau until May 1945. After World War II In 1950, the Federal Foreign Office tasked Selchow along with Erich Hüttenhain, Heinz Kunze (1890-1970) and Rudolf Schauffler to form a cryptographic service under the direction of Adolf Paschke that was called Section 114. The service was to act as a cypher bureau for the Central office of Encryption (ZfCh) () that had been previously created in 1947 and was located at Camp King. In 1955 the unit was disbanded as West Germany was rearming and a new unit was to be created. In 1956, all the equipment and resources of the unit were transferred to the Federal Intelligence Service (Germany). In 1989 the unit was renamed to ZFI (). In 1991 it became the BSI (Federal Office for Information Security). References German diplomats History of telecommunications in Germany Telecommunications in World War II 1886 births Year of death missing