Franz Schramm

This article deals with the politician Franz Schramm. For the theologian see Franz Andreas Schramm .

Franz Schramm (born April 2, 1887 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 28, 1966 in Geisenheim ) was the Hessian Minister of Culture ( CDU ) in the Geiler cabinet from 1946 to 1947.

Life

After completing high school education in Frankfurt, he studied in Würzburg , Berlin and Marburg . In Würzburg he joined the KDSt.V. on April 24, 1906 . Thuringia Würzburg in the CV . At his last place of study in Marburg, he received his doctorate in 1911 and passed the state examination in 1912. For the subsequent teacher training he came to the Wöhlerschule in Frankfurt.

After the end of the war in 1918 he worked as a teacher at the Wöhlerschule and in 1923, as director of the Adlerflychtschule in Frankfurt am Main , he was commissioned to set up the new type of school “German High School” provided for in the school reform at the time. In 1932 Schramm became director of the Wöhlerschule. As early as 1933, as chairman of the “Catholic Committee” of the Weimar Republic , he was attacked by the now ruling National Socialist rulers.

The attempt to dismiss him from school initially failed, so that he only received a punitive transfer to Geisenheim am Rhein. In 1937, at the age of 50, he was finally given early retirement. He then moved back to Frankfurt to teach working people to start their studies. Shortly after the end of the war, in June 1945, Schramm was asked to rebuild the school system in the Rheingau . As early as November 1, 1945, he was appointed head of the school department in the Hessian Ministry of Culture and in 1946 was appointed ministerial director and head of the state education office. From Easter 1946 to January 1947 he was Minister of Education in Hesse and in this capacity he signed the Hessian constitution of December 1946. With a decree of May 13, 1946, he forbade every kind of corporal punishment in schools. From 1947 until his retirement in 1955, Schramm was senior director of today's Rheingau School in Geisenheim.

From 1947 to 1955, Schramm was also part-time chairman of the Catholic Action in the Limburg diocese . Now he was busy editing the "Pedagogical Province" published by Hirschgraben Verlag , in which questions of upbringing and teaching were dealt with. He was curator of the institutes of the Max Planck Society W.G. Kerckhoff Institute in Bad Nauheim and the Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt. From 1949 he was President of the Longfellow Society in the Steuben-Schurz Society. Together with H. Dietmar, Schramm initiated the construction of the Longfellow monument in Geisenheim. Until his death he remained a member of the main committee for schools and education of the Hessian Catholic Action.

From 1933 Schramm lived in Geisenheim-Johannisberg in the Rheingau-Taunus district .

Awards, honors

1952 was him by Pope Pius XII. awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Gregorius . In the same year he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic . In 1954 Schramm received the Goethe badge from the State of Hesse on the occasion of his 40th anniversary with the company. A few years later he was awarded the plaque of honor by the city of Frankfurt am Main . After his death, a street in Geisenheim was named after him.

literature

• Peter Bloch : My teachers . Frankfurt 2008. (Contains a portrait and photo of Franz Schramm)