Leopold Boehm

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Leopold Böhm (born January 11, 1922 in Vienna ; † April 4, 2007 there ) was an Austrian entrepreneur .

Life

Born in 1922 to Jewish parents, he fled Austria after joining the National Socialist Greater German Reich. His parents, however, were murdered in the Holocaust . He fought in the British Army during World War II . After the war he worked for an oil company in Haifa before returning to Austria in 1952.

In 1953 he entered the trading company Schöps his uncle Richard Schöps one that is already built up his cousin Gerda Heart Schöps (daughter of Richard Schöps) and her husband Alfred Stühler. Within a few years they turned the small Viennese textile company into a trading empire with over 100 branches throughout Austria. In 1989 the company was sold to the British investment bank Schroders for 160 million euros .

He then worked in the real estate sector and was quickly successful here too. Among other things, he bought a 45,000 square meter area in Vienna-Erdberg with Ariel Muzicant and his nephew Michael Brooks . He was most recently ranked 34th on the list of the richest Austrians.

From 1973 to 1977 he was president of the soccer club FK Austria Wien .

On March 18, 2006, he fell in his house in Vienna-Döbling and suffered a brain trauma . He was not supposed to recover from this accident. He died on April 4, 2007 in his home in Vienna.

In 2011, Leopold-Böhm-Strasse in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) was named after him, and in 2016 Schöpsstrasse was named after his uncle.

Others

His wife Lotte was kidnapped on December 12, 1977 and released on December 17 after paying a ransom of ATS 21 million (later figures: 25.7 million). The kidnappers Paul Francsics (28 years old) and Franz Panagl (27 years old) were caught on January 12, 1978 when they tried to deposit millions of ransom money at a Viennese bank ("Erste Österreichische Spar-Casse") (15 million schillings were secured become); the third member of the "MP gang" (it turned out to be this gang that had already committed robberies in the past) was Francsics friend Christa Schneck (30 years old). The entire ransom could be secured in the course of the police investigation. The trial began on October 10, 1978 (October 9?) Before a jury in Vienna; the sentences were: 20 years for Francsics, 15 years for Panagl and 8 years for Schneck - Francsics was released early from Stein prison in 1994; except for a job in a dog shearing establishment, he never found a normal life. He was passionate about drugs and guns and sold a gun to a prison friend that he used to rob a bank in 2006, and when the friend was arrested, he revealed the source of the gun. The Cobra stood with 20 men in front of Francsics' house, who opened it with a gun in his waistband, and during a house search found a hash plantation; on March 9, 2007 Francsics (defense attorney Hofstätter / law firm Eichenseder) was sentenced to three years in St. Pölten.

It should be noted that the former national football team coach Karl Stotz , who (possibly due to the football connection of Mr. Böhm as Austria-Vienna President a friend of Böhm and) was a partner in Mr. Böhm and the fashion company "Schöps", in mediated this kidnapping case.

Böhm's daughter Sandra Grünberger invested 1.5 million euros in Puls TV (Vienna) and made a career there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ «So far no sign of life from the textile king's wife» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 14, 1977, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ top right: "War of nerves over kidnapped Lotte Böhm" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 15, 1977, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ "Boehm says: No news from Lotte" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 14, 1977, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ top left: «False kidnapper demanded 5 million» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 15, 1977, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ «False kidnappers wanted 5 million» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 15, 1977, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ top right: "Lotte Böhm: Ransom money obtained?" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 17, 1977, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ «Böhm: Before handing over the ransom» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 17, 1977, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ "Eyes stuck together, 105 hours in foam rubber cell" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 18, 1977, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ "Eyes stuck together, 105 hours in foam rubber cell" and column on the right: "We talk about it" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 18, 1977, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ↑ «Leopold Böhm's 21 million was not too much for Lotte» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 18, 1977, p. 2 and 3 ( and 3; html = 1arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. ↑ top right: “The Böhm couple in Israel. No vacation for the police » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 19, 1977, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  12. ↑ «Wait until the ransom appears ...» In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 19, 1977, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  13. ↑ Middle: «Böhm kidnappers disappeared without a trace» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 20, 1977, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  14. ↑ «With millions to the bank: Böhm kidnapper captured» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 13, 1978, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  15. ^ «Arsenal of the kidnappers: MP, pistols, bullet vests» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 14, 1978, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  16. ^ "Böhm paid a ransom of 25.7 million" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 14, 1978, p. 4 and 5 ( and 5; html = 1arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  17. ↑ below: «Böhm kidnappers wanted to abandon an accomplice» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 15, 1978, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  18. ↑ Middle: "Böhm kidnappers even cheated on the accomplice" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 15, 1978, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  19. ↑ below: "I think he is a mechanic" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1978, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  20. ↑ «Böhm ransom will be paid out in the next few weeks» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 18, 1978, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  21. ↑ top right: "Prosecution ready: Trial of Palmers kidnappers" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 13, 1978, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  22. ↑ «Schneck: The number of the dear God» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 14, 1978, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  23. ^ "Böhm kidnappers sentenced to 20, 15 and eight years" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 17, 1978, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  24. ^ "From the fashion center back to Hexenkessel" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 12, 1978, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2007
Place of death Vienna