Karl-Heinz Boseck
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 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 Berlin University, and had great influence in the faculty during World War II.[2]
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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
- ^ a b Gerd Simon [in German] (May 2010). Chronologie Häftlingsforschung (PDF) (Report). Univ. Tübingen.
- ^ ISBN 0-691-00451-X.
- ^ ISBN 0-7923-3541-4.
- ^ a b Luig, Judith (2008-08-30). "Die Mathe-Nazis". taz (in German). Berlin.
- ^ Johannes Juilfs (Mar 1939). "Das erste deutsche Mathematikerlager". Deutsche Mathematik. 3 (1): 109–140.
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 978-0-8218-3550-0.
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