ABSTRACT
For decades, the only information about him was the sketches in the history of Austrian intelligence in World War I by Colonel Max Ronge and an unpublished memoir by General August Urbanski von Ostrymiec. He deserved more. Now Otto Horak, a retired general of the Austrian army and an electronics specialist, has written the definitive biography. (e titles in English: “Andreas Figl: Life and Work, 1873-1967,” I, “Old Master of the Austrian Solving Art and
Cryptographic Science, Retired Official and Retired Colonel,” II, “What Else Remains: Commentary and Documents”).
