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Friedrich Bohl Bundesminister a. D.
Bohl in 2008
Head of the Chancellery Minister for Special Affairs
In office 26 November 1991 – 26 October 1998
Chancellor	Helmut Kohl
Preceded by	Rudolf Seiters
Succeeded by	Bodo Hombach
Chief Whip of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag
In office 25 April 1989 – 25 November 1991
Leader	Alfred Dregger
Preceded by	Rudolf Seiters
Succeeded by	Jürgen Rüttgers
Whip of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag
In office 15 November 1984 – 25 April 1989 Serving with Wolfgang Bötsch, Agnes Hürland-Büning, Ingrid Roitzsch
Leader	Alfred Dregger
Chief Whip	Rudolf Seiters
Preceded by	Rudolf Seiters
Succeeded by	Jürgen Rüttgers
Parliamentary constituencies Member of the Bundestag for Hesse In office 10 November 1994 – 17 October 2002 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by multi-member district Constituency Christian Democratic Union List In office 29 March 1983 – 10 November 1994 Preceded by Gerhard Jahn Succeeded by Brigitte Lange Constituency Marburg In office 4 November 1980 – 29 March 1983 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by multi-member district Constituency Christian Democratic Union List Member of the Landtag of Hesse for Wahlkreis 12 In office 1 December 1970 – 4 November 1980 Preceded by Georg Gaßmann Succeeded by Dietrich Möller
Personal details
Born	(1945-03-05) March 5, 1945 (age 79) Rosdorf, Province of Hanover, Prussia, Nazi Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Christian Democratic Union (1963–)
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Marburg
Occupation	Politician Lawyer Notary

Friedrich Bohl (born March 5, 1945, in Rosdorf, Göttingen) is a former German politician. From 1991 to 1998 he was the chief of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs. He was the member of Fourth Kohl cabinet and Fifth Kohl cabinet. He succeeded Rudolf Seiters on 26 November 1991.

Bohl was born in Rosdorf on March 5, 1945. He graduated in law at the University of Marburg in 1964. He finished the first and second legal state examination in 1969 and 1972 respectively. He was also a research associate at the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law at the University of Marburg. He started practising as a lawyer from 1972. He was ordered to notary in January 1999. 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. Since March 31, 2009, he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG). He became a member of the CDU's youth union in 1964. From 1978 to 2002 he was the chairman of CDU's Marburg-Biedenkopf district association. He was a member of Bundestag from 1980 to 2002. From 1970 to 1980 he was a member of Hesse Landtag and was the deputy chairman of the place's CDU association from 1978 to 1980. From 25 May to 26 October 1998 he was the head of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. After the 1998 election he resigned from the federal government on 26 October 1998. He had also been member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Bureau of the European Union of Germany. He also served as the first parliamentary secretary of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. From 26 November 1991 to 26 October 1998 he served as the Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery.

He was alleged to have destroyed files related to the party funding scandal during his tenure as the chief of the Federal chancellery. At that time he had taken the political responsibility but denied that he had ordered to destroy the documents. No evidences were found against him in the matter. He has served as the chairman of the supervisory board of the company Hessian craft AG. He was regarded as one of the closest confidants of then-Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl, and the phrase "No Kohl without Bohl" was used in German politics.

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. He has 4 children.

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".

• 1990: Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1997: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1998: Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Merit

• Fourth Kohl cabinet
• Fifth Kohl cabinet

• Schönfeld, Ralf (2011). Bundeskanzleramtschefs im vereinten Deutschland: Friedrich Bohl, Frank-Walter Steinmeier und Thomas de Maizière im Vergleich [Federal Agency Head in a United Germany: Friedrich Bohl, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Thomas de Maizière compared] (in German). Germany: Stuttgart. ISBN 978-3-8382-0116-0.

• 1945 births
• Living people
• Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
• Members of the Bundestag for Hesse
• Members of the Bundestag 1998–2002
• Members of the Bundestag 1994–1998
• Members of the Bundestag 1990–1994
• Members of the Bundestag 1987–1990
• Members of the Bundestag 1983–1987
• Members of the Bundestag 1980–1983
• People from Göttingen (district)
• Recipients of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
• Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Heads of the German Chancellery