Friedrich Böhm (born 15 August 1885 inHarburg (Swabia) nearDonauwörth, died 25 August 1965 inMunich) was a Germanactuarial andinsurancemathematician and university lecturer.[1] DuringWorld War II, Böhm was conscripted into Group IV ofInspectorate 7 (German:Horchleistelle), an early cipher bureau andSignals intelligence agency of theGerman Army (Wehrmacht) (German:Heer), working todecode foreignCiphers. He would later work in the successor organization:General der Nachrichtenaufklärung, in a similar role.
Friedrich Böhm studiedmathematics at theGymnasium St. Anna in Augsburg,Munich. In 1908 he undertook his promotion toDr Phil with a thesis titled:Parabolic metric in the hyperbolic space. Lindemann, who had already given lectures onActuarial mathematics in Munich, drew his attention to questions of mortality and disability. In 1911, he enabled Böhm'sHabilitation in this discipline. Böhm became a privatelecturer and, following the example of theUniversity of Göttingen ( Georg Bohlmann ), founded a seminar on statistics and the insurance industry.[1] During the 1911-12 winter term, he began delivering lectures on insurance mathematics. He had also taken the state exams as a teacher and was a student councillor. In 1920 he became anextraordinary professor of insurancemathematics at the University of Munich, which he taught up to his retirement in 1955. He also taught other applications of mathematics in business.[2]
He remained for a long time the onlyactuarial science mathematician at theLudwig Maximilian University of Munich, and was only temporarily supported by the former director of Hamburger Feuerkasse,Paul Riebesell, who was appointed honorary professor in 1938 at the university. The successor of Böhm in Munich wasHans Richter, who in 1955 received anordinariat (German:Lehrstuhl) for mathematical statistics and economic mathematics.
Böhm's two-volume textbook onactuarial scienceVersicherungsmathematik was widely disseminated.[specify]
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