Erich Böhme
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Erich Böhme was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 journalist and television host. He served as editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...

from 1973 to 1989. In 1990 he took over as host of Talk im Turm, a weekly talk show
Talk show
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 on Sat.1
Sat.1
Sat.1 is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station in Germany, having started one day before RTL Television....

.

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Böhme earned his Diplom
Diplom
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 in economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 from the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1958 he joined Der Spiegel as business correspondent, and in 1973 became editor-in-chief. Under his guidance, Der Spiegel uncovered a number German political scandals
German political scandals
This is a list of major political scandals in Germany:*Spiegel scandal *"Radikalenerlass" or Berufsverbot *Rudel Scandal *CDU secret party donations scandal , twice:**1982 "Flick Affair"...

, including the Flick affair
Flick Affair
The Flick Affair was a German political scandal of the early 1980s relating to political contributions by the Flick company, a major German conglomerate, to various political parties "for the cultivation of the political landscape"...

 and the Barschel affair.

Böhme died in Bad Saarow
Bad Saarow
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on November 27, 2009 from cancer.

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