Bernhard Boll (publisher, 1913)

Bernhard Boll (III) (born October 26, 1913 in Solingen ; † March 20, 1968 there ) was a German publisher .

Bernhard Boll studied law in Freiburg, Munich, Bonn and Cologne and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1938 with his thesis "The criminal law protection of the editor's profession". In Freiburg, Boll was a member of the Corps Suevia Freiburg .

In the third generation and as the third bearer of the name, Bernhard Boll managed the family-run publishing company B. Boll , which publishes the city's highest-circulation newspaper, the Solinger Tageblatt . The newspaper appeared for the first time in 1809, since 1912 under its current name.

In 1945 Boll married Edith Friesenhausen from Zerbst. The marriage has two children. Bernhard Boll was posthumously honored with the Solingen Ring of Honor in 1968. His wife Edith Boll received the Federal Cross of Merit First Class in 1975 for her social commitment . The son, Bernhard Boll (IV) , now runs the newspaper and publisher.

In 1968 Bernhard Boll was the victim of a robbery and subsequent serious arson in his weekend house in a forest in Solingen. The perpetrator was found unsolved by the sixth episode of the ZDF program Aktenzeichen XY , broadcast on June 7, 1968 , in which the criminal police carried out a public search on television, a few days after the broadcast using a stolen watch and later sentenced to life imprisonment . It was the first murder case that was solved with the help of this program and thereby increased its acceptance among the population.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karlsruhe catalog. Retrieved June 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Honorary Ring Bearer of the City of Solingen ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 31, 2017
3. ↑ Edith Boll, businesswoman with a heart on solinger-tageblatt.de v. January 17, 2011 (accessed December 1, 2015)
4. ↑ aktenzeichenxy.zdf.de

Web links

• Broadcast from June 7th, 1968 / Filmfall 1 - XY-Wiki (description of the murder of Bernhard Boll on XYwiki). In: archive.org. January 28, 2017, archived from the original on January 28, 2017 ; accessed on February 18, 2017 .