Horst Hauthal
Horst Hauthal (born 3 September 1913 in Berlin; died 21 March 2002 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler) was a German ambassador. Horst Hauthal was also known for his meteoric rise to lead the cryptographic Section in Z Branch of the Pers Z S, the Foreign Office Personnel Department () during World War II Life Hauthal graduated from high school in Berlin in 1932 and studied mathematics, natural sciences and philosophy in Berlin and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle . Hauthal joined the Nazi Party in 1937 (member number 5,062,619), became a trainee in 1939 and joined the Foreign Office in 1940. Until 1945, Horst Hauthal headed the secretary council, known as a staff special service, as a member of the personnel department, under the direction of the envoy Kurt Selchow. The cryptography department was concerned with the compilation and distribution of codes and ciphers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1954, Hauthal was promoted to Doctor of Economics at the University of Bonn with a thesis titled: An econometric survey on the dependence of employment on pay levels (German:Eine ökonometrische Untersuchung zur Abhängigkeit der Beschäftigung von der Lohnhöhe). In the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of