Karl-Heinz Boseck (born 11 December 1915)[1]: 39 was a German
mathematician.
According to Segal (2003), Boseck was a fanatical
National Socialist and a student leader.[2]: 323
He was an informer of the
Gestapo[3]: 119 [4] since 1939.[1]: 39
In 1944, shortly after his diploma graduation he was made an
Untersturmführer of the
Nazi SS and established a department for numerical computation in the
Sachsenhausen concentration camp[3]: 118–120 [4]
He was exempted from war service due to a disease.
He was an assistant of the German mathematician
Alfred Klose at
Berlin University, and had great influence in the faculty during World War II.[2]: 323
At the first mathematicians camp 1–3 July 1938 in the youth hostel of Ützdorf(
de) near
Bernau, he lectured "On the development of student science work".[5]: 123–124
He was department chairman for natural science at Berlin University, and had great influence on
Ludwig Bieberbach who was leader of the "seminar" (may be institute); with course of time even more power shifted from Bieberbach to Boseck.[6][7]: 153
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abSanford Segal (2003). Mathematicians under the Nazis. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press.
ISBN0-691-00451-X.
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abH. Mehrtens (1996). "Mathematics and War: Germany, 1900–1945". In Paul Forman and José M. Sánchez-Ron (ed.). National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 87–134.
ISBN0-7923-3541-4.
^Alexander Dinghas (1998). "Erinnerungen aus den letzten Jahren des Mathematischen Instituts der Universität Berlin". In Heinrich Begehr (ed.). Mathematik in Berlin — Geschichte und Dokumentation (2.Halbband). Aachen: Shaker Verlag.
^Eckart Menzler-Trott (2007). Logic's Lost Genius: The Life of Gerhard Gentzen. History of Mathematics. Vol. 33. Providence/RI: American Mathematical Society.
ISBN978-0-8218-3550-0.