[2] Selchow who also recruited Werner Kunze, Adolf Paschke, Karl Zastrow, Wilhelm Brandes, and Ernst Hoffmann for the unit as he had known them during the war.
[1] In 1967, the historian David Kahn interviewed Schauffler in his apartment for his 1967 book, The Codebreakers and found it most depressing.
During the period from 1921 to 1923, Schauffler worked as part a team that included Werner Kunze on the development of a one-time pad system for the use by the Foreign Office.
[12] In 1950, the Federal Foreign Office tasked Selchow along with Schauffler, Erich Hüttenhain and Heinz Kuntze to form a cryptographic service under the direction of Adolf Paschke that was called Section 114.
[13] The service was to act as a cypher bureau for the Central office of Encryption (ZfCh) (German: Zentralstelle für das Chiffrierwesen) that had been previously created in 1947 and was located at Camp King.