Grossekettler, Heinz --- "Franz Böhm (1895–1977)" [2005] ELECD 159; in Backhaus, G. Jürgen (ed), "The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845420321

Section: Chapter 35

Section Title: Franz Böhm (1895–1977)

Author(s): Grossekettler, Heinz

Number of pages: 10

Extract:

35 Franz Böhm (1895­1977)
Heinz Grossekettler


A survey of Böhm's life and work
Franz Böhm was born in Konstanz, in Baden, on 16 February 1895, the son
of a jurist who was later to become the Badenese Minister of Education and
Cultural Affairs. He passed the school-leaving examination in 1913, and after
serving in the war he studied law in Freiburg. In 1922 and 1924 he passed the
two examinations that German law students are required to take in order to
complete their legal education. He then became a public prosecutor in Freiburg.
As early as 1925, however, he moved to the Reich Ministry for Economics,
where he was put in charge of the antitrust enforcement department. While he
was employed there he worked on his doctoral thesis about the conflict
between monopolists and outsiders.
The dissertation was supervised by Heinrich Hoeniger, a professor of law,
and completed in 1931. Böhm then wrote a post-doctoral thesis which was
appraised by Hans Grossmann-Doerth, a jurist, and by Walter Eucken, a well-
known economist. The two theses were published together in a book entitled
Wettbewerb und Monopolkampf (Competition and the struggle for monopoly)
(Böhm, 1933).
In order to become a professor at a German university, it is usual to gain a
doctorate (Promotion) and qualify as a lecturer (Habilitation), and generally
the professorship must be offered by a different university from the one
where the scholar qualified. In 1937 Böhm was ...