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Grossekettler, Heinz --- "Franz Böhm (1895-1977)" [1999] ELECD 32; in Backhaus, G. Jürgen (ed), "The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999)

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781858985169

Section: Chapter 25

Section Title: Franz Böhm (1895-1977)

Author(s): Grossekettler, Heinz

Number of pages: 10

Extract:

25 Franz Bohm (1895-1977)
Heinz Grossekettler


A survey of Bohm's life and work
Franz Bohm was born in Constance 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 World War I, he studied law in Freiburg. In 1922 and 1924 he passed the
two examinations which law students in Germany have to take in order to
complete their legal education. After that he 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 depart-
ment. While he was employed in the Economics Ministry, Bohm was working
on a doctoral thesis on the conflict between monopolists and outsiders.
The dissertation was supervised by a law professor, Heinrich Hoeniger,
and completed in 1931. After that, Bohm wrote a post-doctoral thesis which
was appraised by a jurist, Hans Grossmann-Doerth, 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') (Bohm, 1933).
In order to become a professor at a German university, one normally has to
gain a doctorate (Promotion) and qualify as a lecturer (Habilitation). As a
rule, a professorship must be offered by a different university from the one
where a scholar has taken his doctorate and ...