According to Segal (2003), Boseck was a fanatical National Socialist and a student leader.
[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.