Eric Boehm
Eric Boehm (July 15, 1918 – September 11, 2017), was a German-American publisher.
Eric H. Boehm was born on July 15, 1918 in Hof, Germany. At age 16 he was sent to live with relatives in Ohio to avoid Nazi antisemitism. He attended the College of Wooster from 1936 to 1940, graduating with degrees in Chemistry and History.
Rejected after a job interview in chemistry because of his religion, his chemistry professor found him a post as teaching assistant at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he pursued his interests in history and political affairs and received a Masters degree in 1942.
In 1942 he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became a 1st Lieutenant in the intelligence branch in an interrogation center in England. He interrogated top leaders of Germany's aerial warfare branch and in Berlin in 1946 helped dissolve the Supreme Command of the German Luftwaffe.
He died on September 11, 2017.
Publications
We Survived: Fourteen Stories of the Hidden and Hunted in Nazi Germany.
Honors
- College of Wooster. Honorary doctorate for advances in computerization in publishing for the library market and for work in the dissemination of knowledge, 1973; Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1990.