Ehrengard Schramm

Ehrengard Schramm (born von Thadden ; born October 5, 1900 in Greifenberg in Pomerania , † June 30, 1985 in Göttingen ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Ehrengard Schramm came from the Thadden family and was the youngest child of the multiple landowner Adolf von Thadden (1858-1932) and his first wife Ehrengard von Gerlach (1868-1909). Her sister Elisabeth von Thadden was executed as a resistance fighter in 1944; her brother Reinold von Thadden was the founding president of the German Evangelical Church Congress . Her half-brother Adolf von Thadden was a politician from various right-wing extremist parties.

After Ehrengard Schramm had graduated from high school in Berlin in 1920, she began training as a teacher and passed the teacher examination in Hamburg in 1924 . She studied at a university for a short time and then married the historian Percy Ernst Schramm in 1925 . She worked as an author and wrote two books dealing with recent Greek history. She was involved in a leading position for an aid organization of the German Women's Ring for places in Greece that had been destroyed by German troops in World War II. From 1953 to 1956 she was a member of the council in Göttingen. From May 6, 1959 to June 5, 1967 she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (4th and 5th electoral terms). She had three sons, including the architect Jost Schramm (1926-2001) and the Eastern European historian Gottfried Schramm (1929-2017).

For her work, she was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in the form of a neck cross.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ehrengard Schramm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Ehrengard Schramm  in the German Digital Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Ehrengard Schramm at perlentaucher.de

literature

• Helga-Maria Kühn : Ehrengard Schramm, a committed Göttingen citizen. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 41 (1993), pp. 211-224.
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 345.
• Traudel Weber-Reich: “Worth getting to know”: important women of Göttingen. 3rd, verb. Edition. Wallstein, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-89244-207-X , p. 289ff. ( Online on Google Books )