Friedrich Bohl (born March 5, 1945, in Rosdorf, Göttingen) is a former German politician.

He was also a research associate at the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law at the University of Marburg.

From 1998 to March 31, 2009, Bohl was on the Executive Board of Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG) responsible for the areas of Group Secretariat, public relations, associations and law.

[4] He was alleged to have destroyed files related to the party funding scandal during his tenure as the chief of the Federal chancellery.

[6] In December 2013 he was unanimously elected the chairman of the Joint Board of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research and the William G. Kerckhoff Foundation.

[4] He had once been called the "man with the oil can", the chancellor's "messenger and adviser, servant and executioner", "sort of prime minister" serving Helmut Kohl and "more equal than his cabinet colleagues".