[1] 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 (German: Sonderdienst des Referats Z in der Personalabteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes) during World War II 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 .
[2] 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.
[5] In the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hauthal was set up in Unit 114, led by former Pers Z S linguist, cryptanalyst and colleague Director Adolf Paschke (1911-1981).
[5] In 1967, Hauthal was the head of the Department for Economic Relations to the Middle East and North Africa of the Federal Foreign Office.
[8] From 19 to 20 November 1973, Horst Hauthal was the head of the South Asia Department at the Federal Foreign Office, with Lothar Lahn on the fourth bilateral talks in Islamabad.