In memory of my father Franz Böringer

(31st January 1931 - 23rd July 2014)
My father as a kid with his little friend Ricko. franz-boeringer-01.jpg
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At about the age of fourteen with his sisters Anna (right) and Gertrud.





My parents
Marlene and
Franz Böringer
in Oberprechtal,
August 1957.

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Franz Böringer, as a police sergeant, during a course at the Sports Academy of the Federal Border Guard (now Federal Police) in Lübeck, March 1958.





In the 1960s:
My father was an avid fistball player.

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Marlene
and
Franz Böringer,
in about 1960.


In the 1960s:
Franz Böringer (red dot), celebrating in the chow hall of the 'Bereitschaftspolizei' (public order support force) in Koblenz.

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At the end of the 1960s: My father as superintendent.

1971: Franz Böringer and me
in Manderscheid (Eifel).

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1976:
Franz Böringer,
during a visit of police officers from the police headquarters Wad Medani/Sudan
(Hassan Ahmad
al-Siddig et al.)
and their families to Koblenz.

1979: During a visit of English police officers from Norwich,
Norfolk Constabulary
(Roger Brighton,
Derek Bunn,
Alan Goldsmith,
Patrick Nash,
Edmund Worby),
and their families to Koblenz.

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At the end of the 1970s:
With Klaus Werz (right), later Head of Public Order Support Force, Rhineland-Palatinate, during a joint exercise (woodland search) of police, public order support force and helicopter unit in the Hunsrück.

(Photograph courtesy of Klaus Werz)



June 1980:
Franz Böringer
with Werner Maxeiner (later senior chief inspector and head of the highway patrol in Montabaur/Westerwald) during a visit of King Khalid of Saudi Arabia to Koblenz and Bonn.

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In the 1980s:
Marlene and
Franz Böringer
on holiday in
St. Tropez.

1985:
Franz Böringer was also a tennis enthusiast.

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About 2006: In the vineyard in Winningen, above the river Mosel.

1989, Gallic humor of French Gendarmerie:
It's FRANZ and not HERMANN -
go and ask Dr. Müller: "MUSKATNUSS!"
(= nutmeg; cf.:
Louis de Funès,
'Le Grand Restaurant').

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1966, checkpoint Lauterbourg/France:
"Bonjour -
we are back!"
My mother Marlene Böringer after an unsuccessful attempt to invade France. Anyway: Her Volkswagen Beetle damaged at least a French barrier.
(She had been allegedly distracted by a handsome French customs officer...!)

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