Karl-Heinz Boseck

{{Short description|German mathematician}}

Karl-Heinz Boseck (born 11 December 1915){{cite report | author=Gerd Simon |author-link=:de:Gerd Simon | title=Chronologie Häftlingsforschung | institution=Univ. Tübingen | date=May 2010 |url=http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/gerd.simon/ChrHaeftlingsfo.pdf }}{{rp|39}} was a German mathematician.

According to Segal (2003), Boseck was a fanatical National Socialist and a student leader.{{cite book | author=Sanford Segal | title=Mathematicians under the Nazis | location=Princeton/NJ | publisher=Princeton University Press | isbn=0-691-00451-X | year=2003 }}{{rp|323}}

He was an informer of the Gestapo{{cite book | author=H. Mehrtens | contribution=Mathematics and War: Germany, 1900–1945 | pages=87–134 | editor=Paul Forman and José M. Sánchez-Ron | title=National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology | location=Dordrecht | publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers | isbn=0-7923-3541-4 | year=1996}}{{rp|119}}{{cite news | last =Luig | first =Judith | title =Die Mathe-Nazis | newspaper =taz | location =Berlin | language =de | date =2008-08-30 | url =http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/print-archiv/printressorts/digi-artikel/?ressort=do&dig=2008%2F08%2F30%2Fa0010&cHash=bba66f8109 }} since 1939.{{rp|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{{rp|118–120}}

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.{{rp|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".{{cite journal | author=Johannes Juilfs | author-link=Johannes Juilfs | title=Das erste deutsche Mathematikerlager | journal=Deutsche Mathematik | volume=3 | number=1 | pages=109–140 | date=Mar 1939 }}{{rp|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.{{cite book | author=Alexander Dinghas | contribution=Erinnerungen aus den letzten Jahren des Mathematischen Instituts der Universität Berlin | editor=Heinrich Begehr | title=Mathematik in Berlin — Geschichte und Dokumentation (2.Halbband)| location=Aachen | publisher=Shaker Verlag | year=1998}}{{cite book | author=Eckart Menzler-Trott | title=Logic's Lost Genius: The Life of Gerhard Gentzen | location=Providence/RI | publisher=American Mathematical Society | series=History of Mathematics | volume=33 | isbn=978-0-8218-3550-0 | year=2007 }}{{rp|153}}