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Wilhelm Tranow (born 1891) was a German cryptanalyst, who before and during World War II worked in the monitoring service of the German Navy and was responsible for breaking a number of encrypted radio communication systems, particularly the Naval Cypher, which was used by the British Admiralty for encrypting operational signals and the Naval Code for encrypting administrative signals.
The B-Dienst (German: Beobachtungsdienst, observation service), also called xB-Dienst, X-B-Dienst and χB-Dienst, [1] was a Department of the German Naval Intelligence Service (German: Marinenachrichtendienst, MND III) of the OKM that dealt with the interception and recording, decoding and analysis of the enemy.
The first documented mention of the settlement dates back to 1105, spelled as Tharnow.The name later evolved to Tarnowo (1229), Tarnów (1327), and Tharnow (1473). [6] The place name Tarnów is widely used in different forms across Slavic Europe, and lands which used to be inhabited by Slavs, such as eastern Germany, Hungary, and northern Greece.
In September 1935, Tranow and his unit made a major advance in breaking the Royal Navy's most widely used code, the 5-digit Naval Code (German Code Name: München (Munich)), using the method of comparing the routes of a merchant vessel, which were published in Lloyds Weekly Shipping Reports (Lloyd's Register), with the coded reports.
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Tarnów County (Polish: powiat tarnowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland.It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.
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