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Karl-Heinz Boseck (born 11 Dec 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(de) at Berlin University, and had great influence in the faculty during WWII.[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 

Department for numerical computation in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp

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On 25 Mai 1944, Heinrich Himmler instructed Oswald Pohl to establish a scientific research office in a concentration camp to exploit the expert knowledge of imprisoned mathematicians, physicians, chemicists, and other scientists for the time-comsuming and humanly stressful ("menschenbeanspruchend") evaluation of formulas, preparation of individual constructions, and also, however, for basic research. [8]: 319  [9]: 660  [2]: 322  [10]: 364  Himmler assigned the overall responsibility to Pohl, and the scientific management to Walther Wüst, assisted by Wolfram Sievers.[8]: 319 

On 19 Aug 1944, SS-Hauptsturmführer H.J. Fischer (RSHA)[14] selected Dachau prisoners for scientific assignment.[9]: 661 [10]: 364  In Nov 1944, Boseck selected another 14 prisoners from Dachau.[9]: 661–662 

On 28 Dec 1944, Boseck reported to Himmler that the the mathematical department had started working in December with seven prisoners, reinforced after 8 Dec by another eleven Buchenwald prisoners which were released prematurely from quarantine.[8]: 322 

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  1. ^ a b Gerd Simon [de] (May 2010). Chronologie Häftlingsforschung (PDF) (Report). Univ. Tübingen. {{cite report}}: Check |author= value (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b c Sanford Segal (2003). Mathematicians under the Nazis. Princeton/NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00451-X.
  3. ^ a b Herbert Mehrtens [de] (1996). "Mathematics and War: Germany, 1900–1945". In Paul Forman; José M. Sánchez-Ron (eds.). National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 87–134. ISBN 0-7923-3541-4. {{cite book}}: Check |author= value (help); Unknown parameter |editor1link= ignored (|editor-link1= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b 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.
  8. ^ a b c Léon Poliakov; Josef Wulf [de], eds. (1959). Das Dritte Reich und seine Denker — Dokumente (in German). Berlin-Grunewald: Arani. {{cite book}}: Check |editor2= value (help); Unknown parameter |editor1link= ignored (|editor-link1= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link)
  9. ^ a b c Rainer Fröbe (1998). "KZ-Häftlinge als Reserve qualifizierter Arbeitskraft — Eine späte Entdeckung der deutschen Industrie und ihre Folgen". In Ulrich Herbert and Karin Orth and Christoph Dieckmann (ed.). Die nationalsozialitischen Konzentrationslager — Entwicklung und Struktur (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. pp. 636–681. ISBN 3-89244-289-4.
  10. ^ a b Hermann Kaienburg [de] (2006). Der Militär- und Wirtschaftskomplex der SS im KZ-Standort Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg — Schnittpunkt von KZ-System, Waffen-SS und Judenmord (in German). Berlin: Metropol. {{cite book}}: Check |author= value (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) — Table of contents
  11. ^ Gerd Simon, Chronologie Haeftlingsforschung, Tübingen, May 2010 - Home page
  12. ^ Helmut Joachim Fischer (1985). Erinnerungen II — Feuerwehr für die Forschung. Quellenstudien der Zeitgeschichtlichen Forschungsstelle Ingolstadt. Vol. 6. Ingolstadt.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) — Vol. I catalogue entry at DNB
  13. ^ Biography at Heidelberg University library
  14. ^ Dr. Helmut Joachim Fischer (7 May 1911, Berlin — 18 Jul 1987, Hamburg), RSHA Dept. III C 1, immediately subordinated to his friend Wilhelm Spengler [de][11]: 27, 61 [12][13]

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