Gottfried Schapper

Gottfried Schapper (16 December 1888 in Groß Möringen – after 8 May 1945, in the district of Stendal) was a German listening specialist, before and during World War II.

He along with some colleagues, including the convinced Nazi, Hans Schimpf, proposed to Hermann Göring that a separate signals office be created that would be free from department ties.

[2] From 1927, Schapper played a key role in centralizing the scattered interception and decryption departments of the Ministry of the Reichswehr (German: Reichswehrministerium).

Schmidt stated: Hans Schimpf, who was a close friend of Göring was selected, along with 8 key people, and Schapper to create the new agency, which started operation in March 1933.

He was arrested near Rosenheim in May 1945 and taken to Salzburg and Augsburg, where he was interrogated by TICOM, the project formed in World War II by the United States to find and seize German intelligence assets.