very keen on intercept problems. From 1940 to 1942, he bombarded the Chief Signal Officer of the Wehrmacht, Erich Fellgiebel with memoranda on the necessity for a centralised control of intercept and on the need for setting up a centralised intercept unit staffed by at least, 3000 technicians. As a result of this agitation, he was pushed out of the intercept service until August 1944, when he was recalled to advise on certain problems of V2 operations. References 1898 births Reichswehr personnel German Army personnel of World War I 20th-century German people 19th-century German people Research and development in Nazi Germany Year of death missing