Friedrich Böhm studied mathematics at the Gymnasium St. Anna in Augsburg, Munich.
In 1908 he undertook his promotion to Dr Phil with a thesis titled: Parabolic metric in the hyperbolic space.
Lindemann, who had already given lectures on Actuarial mathematics in Munich, drew his attention to questions of mortality and disability.
Böhm became a private lecturer and, following the example of the University of Göttingen ( Georg Bohlmann ), founded a seminar on statistics and the insurance industry.
[2] He remained for a long time the only actuarial science mathematician at the Ludwig 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.