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Böhm died at his home in [[Berlin-Karlshorst]] on 4 May 1980.<ref name=eui/><ref>{{cite news|title=Questions over death squad|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/questions-over-death-squad-20030929|access-date=20 July 2021|work=news24|date=29 September 2003|location=Berlin}}</ref> The East German officials reported on the next day that his wife shot him during a quarrel and then she committed suicide.<ref name=lro/><ref name=smh03>{{cite news|title=East German leaders' hit squad revealed|url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/east-german-leaders-hit-squad-revealed-20030929-gdhhbc.html|access-date=20 July 2021|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|agency=Deutsche Presse-Agentur|date=29 September 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227013723/https://www.smh.com.au/world/east-german-leaders-hit-squad-revealed-20030929-gdhhbc.html|archive-date=21 February 2021}}</ref> In 2003 it was revealed as a result of the investigations that Böhm was in fact killed by an East German hit squad due to his potential reports about the bankruptcy faced in East Germany.<ref name=smh03/> His wife was also murdered by the squad to fabricate the official story of his death.<ref name=smh03/>
Böhm died at his home in [[Berlin-Karlshorst]] on 4 May 1980.<ref name=eui/><ref>{{cite news|title=Questions over death squad|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/questions-over-death-squad-20030929|access-date=20 July 2021|work=news24|date=29 September 2003|location=Berlin}}</ref> The East German officials reported on the next day that his wife shot him during a quarrel and then she committed suicide.<ref name=lro/><ref name=smh03>{{cite news|title=East German leaders' hit squad revealed|url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/east-german-leaders-hit-squad-revealed-20030929-gdhhbc.html|access-date=20 July 2021|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|agency=Deutsche Presse-Agentur|date=29 September 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227013723/https://www.smh.com.au/world/east-german-leaders-hit-squad-revealed-20030929-gdhhbc.html|archive-date=21 February 2021}}</ref> In 2003 it was revealed as a result of the investigations that Böhm was in fact killed by an East German hit squad due to his potential reports about the bankruptcy faced in East Germany.<ref name=smh03/> His wife was also murdered by the squad to fabricate the official story of his death.<ref name=smh03/>


Böhm was succeeded by Werner Schmieder as finance minister on 22 May 1980.<ref>{{cite web|title=Was War am 22. Mai 1980|url=https://chroniknet.de/extra/was-war-am/?ereignisdatum=22.5.1980|publisher=Chroniknet|access-date=20 July 2021|language=German}}</ref>
Böhm was succeeded by [[Werner Schmieder]] as finance minister in June 1980.<ref>{{cite web|title=Was War am 22. Mai 1980|url=https://chroniknet.de/extra/was-war-am/?ereignisdatum=22.5.1980|publisher=Chroniknet|access-date=20 July 2021|language=German}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Joachim Lapp|title=Der Ministerrat der DDR: Aufgaben, Arbeitsweise und Struktur der anderen deutschen Regierung|publisher=VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften|year=2013| isbn=978-3-322-88734-4|url=https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=QCWfBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA137|language=de|page=137}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

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Siegfried Böhm
Minister of Finance and Prize
In office
12 December 1966 – 5 May 1980
Prime MinisterWilli Stoph
Horst Sindermann
Willi Stoph
Preceded byWilly Rumpf
Succeeded byWerner Schmieder
Personal details
Born20 August 1928
Plauen
Died4 May 1980(1980-05-04) (aged 51)
Berlin-Karlshorst
NationalityGerman
Political partySocialist Unity Party of Germany

Siegfried Böhm (20 August 1928–4 May 1980) was an East German politician and long-term finance minister of East Germany. He was in office for nearly fourteen years between 1966 and 1980.

Biography

Böhm was born in Plauen on 20 August 1928.[1] In 1966 he was appointed the finance minister and his term lasted until 1980.[1] He was among the central committee members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.[2] He was also a member of the Working Group Balance of Payments from 1974 to 1980.[1] Böhm was one of the first officials who alerted the East German authorities about the negative consequences of the indebtedness to the Western countries.[1][3] He also criticised the illegal currency and gold transactions carried out in the country.[4]

Böhm died at his home in Berlin-Karlshorst on 4 May 1980.[1][5] The East German officials reported on the next day that his wife shot him during a quarrel and then she committed suicide.[2][6] In 2003 it was revealed as a result of the investigations that Böhm was in fact killed by an East German hit squad due to his potential reports about the bankruptcy faced in East Germany.[6] His wife was also murdered by the squad to fabricate the official story of his death.[6]

Böhm was succeeded by Werner Schmieder as finance minister in June 1980.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Siegfried Böhm". European University Institute. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Rätsel um Tod eines DDR-Ministers". LR Online (in German). 26 November 2003. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  3. ^ Angela Romano; Federico Romero (14 September 2020). European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West: National Strategies in the Long 1970s. Taylor & Francis. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-00-021035-4.
  4. ^ Andreas Förster (27 September 2003). "Bundesanwaltschaft ermittelt im Fall Siegfried Böhm / SED-Politiker war 1980 erschossen worden: DDR-Killerkommando soll Minister getötet haben". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Questions over death squad". news24. Berlin. 29 September 2003. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b c "East German leaders' hit squad revealed". The Sydney Morning Herald. Deutsche Presse-Agentur. 29 September 2003. Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 27 February 2021 suggested (help)
  7. ^ "Was War am 22. Mai 1980" (in German). Chroniknet. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  8. ^ Peter Joachim Lapp (2013). Der Ministerrat der DDR: Aufgaben, Arbeitsweise und Struktur der anderen deutschen Regierung (in German). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. p. 137. ISBN 978-3-322-88734-4.

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