Böhm joined the CDU in 1959, joined the Junge Union (JU) and was district chairman of the JU North Hesse from 1962 to 1967. In the 1972 federal elections, Böhm was elected to the German Bundestag via the state list of the CDU Hessen, of which he was a member until 1994. He ran for office six times in the Hersfeld constituency. In the Bundestag he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Inner-German Relations.
Literature
Herbst, Ludolf; Jahn, Bruno (2002). Vierhaus, Rudolf (ed.). Biographisches Handbuch der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages. 1949–2002 [Biographical Handbook of the Members of the German Bundestag. 1949–2002] (in German). München: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Saur. p. 1715. ISBN978-3-11-184511-1.