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}