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 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 edit

^ ^a ^b Gerd Simon [in German] (May 2010). Chronologie Häftlingsforschung (PDF) (Report). Univ. Tübingen.
^ ^a ^b Sanford Segal (2003). Mathematicians under the Nazis. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00451-X.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ ^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.
^ 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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[Simon.2010-1] Gerd Simon [in German] (May 2010). Chronologie Häftlingsforschung (PDF) (Report). Univ. Tübingen.

[Segal.2003-2] Sanford Segal (2003). Mathematicians under the Nazis. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00451-X.

[Mehrtens.1996-3] 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.

[Luig.2008-4] 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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