Dietmar W.G. Boehme

DIETMAR WOLFGANG GERHARD BOEHME of Marlton, NJ, passed away on May 20, 2025. Dietmar was born Dietmar Wolfgang Gerhard Boehme ( spelled with an Umlaut in germany Böhme ). He went by Dietmar Böhme in Germany but in America was known best as Dido, Wolfgang, Wolfie, Dietmar or Uncle Dido to family and close friends. He was born and grew up in Berlin, Germany with family in what was called West Germany at the time and once the wall went up East Germany as well. We know from stories that the family was bombed out 4 times so he says, but I know I ( his daughter ) knew the family they lived in the Sodener Strasse 32 Tanja in Berlin, Germany ( Wilmersdorf area of Berlin ) and lived there until their death. He had two siblings Erika Hertha Bohme and Gerda Bohme, they too lived in the Sodener Strasse but they were born 20 years prior to him. Erika married and moved to the UK and is now deceased, and Gerda also deceased moved to Vienna, Austria. He loved to cook, help and mentor others within his position in the USAF and personally and was known by the family as the " Santa Claus " as he wanted to help others in any way he could. He loved to go hiking or as we say in Germany " Volksmarsching " traveling with his school friends throughout Europe. He loved to travel and see the would both professional and personally as he was born in Berlin, Germany most of all family lived in Europe. Holding parties and playing " Host " is what he did well and loved to do, showing off his famous " Crepe Suzette " at the end of the meal.
After attending School and the Hochschule in Berlin, he studied Hotel and Restaurant Management in Berlin, Germany. In July of 1960 he took a job in France working for a small family Hotel. A nice French couple with a little boy opened a hotel and hired my dad for his exemplary work that he did, but told him to tell those around him that he was from Switzerland and not from Germany as at that time, Germans were NOT FAVORED in France. So he did. The Hotel is still there and running and the son that the couple had still works there, I actually found him and called the Hotel.
He had an apprenticeship in Berlin with the Kempinski Hotel from a connection through my grandfather where he started as a Bus Boy and worked his way up. From what we were told, he was studying Hotel and Restaurant management and five weeks before he was supposed to start his work with a certain company or Hotel ( My dad never told me ) he said that the berlin wall went up and that was the end of that seeing as where he had to go was on the East Side of Berlin and he would have had to go back and forth from one side to the other daily and he did not want to do that. That's when he started working on the Swedish America Line as a Head waiter. In 1961 he sailed on the SS America with his friend Hartmut. I don't know when this was, but I know that he sent this sometime and they both went from Germany to America under a tourist Visa and not through immigration on Ellis Island like most Europeans did back then. While he was studying in the service he passed with flying colors but was still trying to get his citizenship and Naturalization taken care of so they could not pass him until that happened that is how he explained it to me. That is when he started his Career in the USAF, starting in Otis Air Force Base in the 551st O.M. Squadron. During or after Basic Training ( In Lackland ) I know he had a job at a restaurant called the Brass Key Restaurant in Oklahoma and he loved it! Id love to learn more about that as well and the people who worked there. He went back to Germany to find my mom as he was in love with her and in the April of 1966 they were married at the Standesampt in Berlin, Germany. In July of 1966 he bought her a ticket and she sailed on the SS UNITED STATES (docked in Philadelphia) and my brother, Roger Michael Bohme, was born on Otis AFB in October of 1966. In the 1967 or 68 my dad took on a job at cruise AFB in New Jersey and my parents bought a small place in New Egypt, NJ. In 1977, I was born ( Tanja Jasmine Elizabeth Boehme ) and by that time we all lived in Willingboro, NJ. In 1983 ( from what I heard when the neighborhood went down 15 Cherry Tree Lane, Penny Pack Park ) we moved to Medford NJ, where we lived until 1989.
In 1989 we moved from Medford, NJ to Frankfurt Am Main. We lived there until 1999 and that's when he moved back to Medford, NJ. In 2006 he retired from the USAF both Civilian and Active Duty. That is when a friend of the family was retiring and wanting to sell there Delicatesse, my father heard this and that is when he took it over along with his wife and two children ( Roger M. Boehme ) and Tanja J.E. Markgraf.
Relatives and friends are invited to his graveside services on Monday, June 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM Sharp at the B.G. Wm. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Province Line Road in North Hanover, NJ. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the BRADLEY & STOW FUNERAL HOME of Medford, NJ. (BradleyStow.com)
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