1920
      born
in Offenbach am Main / Germany 
1945       diploma in architecture at TU
Munich 
            1947-55   works
at his father 
            Dominikus
Böhm´s  
                         
            (1880-1955)
architectural office in Cologne   
            1947-50  
            first independent
sacral building in Cologne 
1948       marries the architect
Elisabeth Haggenmüller / 
                         
            Elisabeth Böhm
(1921-2012) 
1950-59   births of his
four sons Stephan, Markus, Peter  
                         
            and Paul 
            1951  
    study trip to the United States, meets Walter  
                         
            Gropius and Mies van der
Rohe 
1955       takes over his
father´s office 
1986       receives Pritzker Architecture Price,
as first and  
                         
            only
German
architect 
1991       wird honorary member at the Royal Institute of  
                         
            British Architects 
1993       becomes member of Academy of Arts, Berlin 
            1997      
partnership with his son Paul Böhm
             
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