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 

References

  1. 1 2 Gerd Simon [in German] (May 2010). Chronologie Häftlingsforschung (PDF) (Report). Univ. Tübingen.
  2. 1 2 Sanford Segal (2003). Mathematicians under the Nazis. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00451-X.
  3. 1 2 H. 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. ISBN 0-7923-3541-4.
  4. 1 2 Luig, Judith (2008-08-30). "Die Mathe-Nazis". taz (in German). Berlin.
  5. ↑ Johannes Juilfs (Mar 1939). "Das erste deutsche Mathematikerlager". Deutsche Mathematik. 3 (1): 109–140.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Eckart Menzler-Trott (2007). Logic's Lost Genius: The Life of Gerhard Gentzen. History of Mathematics. Vol. 33. Providence/RI: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-3550-0.


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