Franz Boehm (October 3, 1880 in Boleszyn – February 13, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp) was a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Cologne, resistance fighter and martyr.

His parents were teachers during the cultural struggle by Otto von Bismarck, which is why the family had to move to the Rhineland in 1893 by order of the authorities.

In this confrontation, Boehm displayed not only a very good knowledge of the Weimar Constitution, which guaranteed freedom of religion, but also an exceptional talent for motivating people to invigorate the Catholic faith.

[4] On January 4, 1923, Boehm was sent to the newly founded parish of St. John Before the Latin Gate in Sieglar, near Bonn, where he quickly realized that he had to deal with the extreme political currents of the time, communism and national socialism.

"Ringing the bells at the return of the pilgrims from Rome and disturbance of the National Socialist May Day celebrations", as well as "irregular flagging of the rectory" and "starting Sunday prayers for captured priests and laypeople" were among the accusations against Boehm.

In letters, Boehm took the view that he had acted in Sieglar according to the motto "stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel; and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries" (Phil.

Therefore, in a letter dated October 12, 1937, he asked the vicar general to "take pity on the physical and mental pressure" and to "assign him to a new place of work as soon as possible".

On August 11, 1944, he was taken to Dachau in a single transport because he had obviously been confused with the lawyer and economist Franz Böhm from Mannheim,[11] who belonged to the Freiburg Circles of the German resistance to Nazism.

[14] In 1999, the Catholic Church included parish priest Franz Boehm as a witness of faith in the German Martyrology of the 20th Century.

In 2010, Catholics from the parish in Monheim submitted a petition to the Archdiocese of Cologne to initiate a beatification process for Boehm.

[17] As a contemporary witness, the historian of philosophy Karl Bormann reported about Boehm that he was "helpful, deeply religious, conscientious, strict and uncompromising".