Between July and September 1935, he undertook training near
Kladow, near
Berlin in
Morse Telegraphy (
Wireless telegraphy), German cryptographic procedures and
radio communications. In October 1935, he posted to a fixed intercept station of the Army at
Stuttgart until January 1936. During his time there, he translated plain-language radio messages from French Army and Air Force. In addition, he was employed on evaluation and traffic analysis. Between March and April 1936, he was ordered to a two-month maneuver employed as an airborne radio operators with KG254 in
Kitzingen. His grade during this time was
Officer candidate. He was assigned as an assistant,
Edward Von Lingen who had learned
Russian Army cryptanalysis while at the German Army intercept station in
Treuenbrietzen. When Voegele joined Chi-Stelle it consisted of 12 people. During the remainder of the year, Voegele worked on Spanish cyphers as part of monitoring the Republicans in the
Spanish Civil War. He also worked on several Czechoslovak procedures (
Polygraphic substitution), and on breaking the
Czechoslovak Air Force double-transposition, where the message count only amounted to 10-25 messages per day. Voegele was known to have worked on a number of cyphers during the course of the war. These included the Government Telegraph Code, India Code, Syko, the RAF 4-digit code, Aircraft Movement Code in Autumn 1942, Bomber Code in Winter 1942, January 1943,
Slidex in May 1943, Aircraft Reporting Code from July 1943, UCO Weather Code from May 1944 and Weather Codes throughout the war.
Typex was attempted by Voegele in the early 1940s. Ferdinand Voegele disappears from the historical record after the end of the war. ==References==