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Karl-Heinz Boseck (born 11 Dec 1915) was a German mathematician.

According to Segal (2003), Boseck was a fanatical National Socialist and a student leader. He was an informer of the Gestapo since 1939. 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 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. 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". 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.

Department for numerical computation in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp
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. Himmler assigned the overall responsibility to Pohl, and the scientific management to Walther Wüst, assisted by Wolfram Sievers.

On 19 Aug 1944, SS-Hauptsturmf&uuml;hrer H.J. Fischer (RSHA) selected Dachau prisoners for scientific assignment. In Nov 1944, Boseck selected another 14 prisoners from Dachau.

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.