Does flashing CWM/TRWP wipe data?

I've found a Galaxy S6, but it's got a SIM-pin and phone pincode.
Now I wan't to flash a custom recovery so I could remove this pin and check if I could backtrack the user.

So I don't want the flash to remove the phone's data. Does flashing CWM or TWRP erases this data?

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