Boehm, Hermann, born 18-01-1884 in Rybnik,
joined the Kaiserliche Marine on 01-04-1903 as a cadet, age 19 and did his basic training on SMS Stein
and transferred to the Line cruiser “Wittlesbach”
and on 28-08-1906 promoted to Leutnant zur See and Oberleutnant on 13-10-1908. With the outbreak of the first war he was as Oberleutnant zur See the commander of Torpedoboat V-160. He was promoted to Kapitänleutnant on 19-09-1914 and during the First World War commanded various torpedo boats, the G-37, G-41, V-69 and the V-128. From 28-07-1918 assigned to the Staff of the Marine Station of the Nordsee as an Adjutant, with the command of the Torpedo Division boat D-2. On 16-03-1919 he was dismissed from the service, but when the navy was reactivated as the Reichsmarine
on 27-08-1920 he was recalled to it, mainly serving in Staff posts and as Navigation teacher on the Marine School Mürwick until 1933. Meanwhile on 01-01-1922 promoted to Korvettenkapitän and on 30-09-1928 as Fregattenkapitän. After his promotion to Kapitän zur See
on 01-07-1930 Boehm on 30-09-1932 was appointed to Chief of the Staff of the new formed Fleet Command. On 03-10-1933 Boehm was made the commander of the SMS Hessen
for a year, until he was promoted to
in the autumn of 1934 and appointed Commander in Chief of the navy’s reconnaissance forces. From 25-08-1936 to 03-08-1937, during the opening stages of the Spanish Civil War,
he commanded the German naval forces off the Spanish coast. On 01-04-1937 he was promoted t o Vice Admiral and put in command of the North Sea Station. Early in 1938 he became a full Admiral and in November the same year Fleet Chief. Shortly after the Battle of Poland on 29-10-1939, Boehm was relieved of command after disagreements with Grossadmiral Erich Raeder
and left without a post for several months. After the invasion of Norway in April 1940, he was made the Commander of German Naval Forces there on 10-04-1940, being promoted to General Admiral on 01-04-1941 the following year.
Boehm here paying tribute to the grave of the unknown soldier in Lisboa, was awarded with the German Cross in Gold
on 20-11-1941 and on 03-03-1943 he was recalled from Norway and on 31-05-1943 that year officially discharged from active service, effective on the following 1 June. From 01-03-1944 to 31-03-1945 he commanded the inspectorate of the Kriegsmarine’s education programme, at the end of which post he was fully discharged from the Kriegsmarine.












Death and burial ground of Boehm, Hermann.






