Karl-Heinz Boseck Explained

Karl-Heinz Boseck (born 11 December 1915)^[1] was a German mathematician.

According to Segal (2003), Boseck was a fanatical National Socialist and a student leader.^[2] He was an informer of the Gestapo^{[3] [4]} since 1939.^[1] 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] [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] 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] 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]}

Notes and References

1. Gerd Simon .

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   . Chronologie Häftlingsforschung . Univ. Tübingen . May 2010 .
2. Book: Sanford Segal . Mathematicians under the Nazis . Princeton/NJ . Princeton University Press . 0-691-00451-X . 2003 .
3. Book: H. Mehrtens . Mathematics and War: Germany, 1900–1945 . 87–134 . Paul Forman and José M. Sánchez-Ron . National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology . Dordrecht . Kluwer Academic Publishers . 0-7923-3541-4 . 1996.
4. News: Luig . Judith . Die Mathe-Nazis . taz . Berlin . de . 2008-08-30 .
5. Johannes Juilfs . Johannes Juilfs . Das erste deutsche Mathematikerlager . . 3 . 1 . 109–140 . Mar 1939 .
6. Book: Alexander Dinghas . Erinnerungen aus den letzten Jahren des Mathematischen Instituts der Universität Berlin . Heinrich Begehr . Mathematik in Berlin - Geschichte und Dokumentation (2.Halbband). Aachen . Shaker Verlag . 1998.
7. Book: Eckart Menzler-Trott . Logic's Lost Genius: The Life of Gerhard Gentzen . Providence/RI . American Mathematical Society . History of Mathematics . 33 . 978-0-8218-3550-0 . 2007 .