Siegfried Boehm

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Böhm, left, speaks to Herbert Fechner and Fritz Scharfenstein in the GDR State Council

Siegfried Böhm (born August 20, 1928 in Plauen ; † May 4, 1980 in Berlin-Karlshorst ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was Minister of Finance of the GDR .

Life

Böhm lived with his parents as a child in Netzschkau in Vogtland, where he also went to school. From 1945 completed an apprenticeship as a businessman. In 1947 he joined the FDJ and in 1948 the SED. 1948–1953 he was a full-time FDJ functionary. 1953–1954 he worked in the Espenhain lignite mine . 1954–1958 he studied at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and was then an assistant and member of the party leadership of the Faculty of Political Economy.

From 1959 he was in the planning and finance department of the Central Committee of the SED , from 1963 as the head of Gerhard Schürer's successor . He was an advocate of the New Economic System of Planning and Management of the National Economy (NÖS). From 1966 to 1980, Böhm was Willy Rumpf's successor as Minister of Finance and a member of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers (1966–1980). In this role he oversaw the introduction of electronic data processing in the GDR's financial system. For this purpose he founded the VEB Datenverarbeitung der Finanzorgane in 1969 . From 1967 to 1980 he was also a member of the Central Committee of the SED and a member of the People's Chamber .

On May 4, 1980, the son found his parents who had been shot in the head in their bedroom. The Ministry for State Security (MfS) took over the investigation . It came to the conclusion that Böhm's wife had shot her husband, who wanted to leave his family, with his service pistol. The wife then committed suicide with the same weapon. The Böhms family doubted this. The official GDR representation in 1980 was a "tragic accident".

In 2003, the Federal Prosecutor's Office investigated an alleged member of a killer squad who allegedly had Siegfried Böhm on his list of contract killings. The Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) considered it possible that members of a suspected killer squad shot the couple and disguised the murder as a jealous drama. The crime scene photos by the Stasi ruled out suicide due to the location of the corpses. Statements by the son who found the parents would have confirmed this. According to a dpa report, the reason for a contract killing by the Ministry for State Security could be a dispute between Böhm and the Politburo. As finance minister, he no longer wanted to support the dramatic economic situation in the GDR. Böhm threatened to make the GDR bankruptcy public. Four days before his death, he stayed away from the SED May Day celebrations . An installer "G." arrested in September 2003 in Kleinzerlang , Brandenburg , was said to have shot 25 people with a Makarow pistol on the orders of the GDR leadership. In December 2003 the suspect had to be released from pre-trial detention after no evidence of the existence of the killer squad or of a contract murder victim could be obtained. As it turned out, the plumber had triggered the investigation unintentionally when he wanted to attract unknown third parties.

tomb

Siegfried Boehm's urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Awards

Böhm received the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1964, 1970 and 1974 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Böhm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmitt, Martin: “Networked banking world. Computerization in the Banking Industry of the Federal Republic and the GDR ”, Frank Bösch (ed.): Paths to the digital society: Computer use in the Federal Republic 1955-1990, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2018 (Geschichte der Gegenwart 20), pp. 126–147. Here: p. 143.
  2. ↑ Udo Grashoff : In an attack of depression ... suicides in the GDR. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2012.
  3. ^ GDR contract killings: Defectors in Bavaria liquidated? Report in Focus 40/2003
  4. ↑ Sven Röbel: Hm, well, uh ... In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 2003, p. 80 and 81 ( Online - Dec. 8, 2003 ).
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV, Minister of Finance
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1980
Place of death Berlin-Karlshorst