Hilde Schramm

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Hilde Schramm during a book reading, 2012

Hilde Schramm (born April 17, 1936 in Berlin as Hilde Speer ) is a German educationalist and former Vice President of the Berlin House of Representatives .

Life

Hilde Speer is the daughter of the architect and armaments minister Albert Speer (1905–1981), who was active during the National Socialist era, and Margarete Speer (1905–1987), née Weber. The architect and urban planner Albert Speer junior (1934–2017) was one of her five siblings . Grown up in Heidelberg , she attended the Elisabeth von Thadden School , a Protestant girls' high school in the Wieblingen district , for some time . There she was taught history by the Jewish teacher Dora Lux (1882-1959) from 1953 to 1955 , about whom she published a book in 2012.

As a 16-year-old Speer received a scholarship to study in the United States . The US government initially refused her entry visa. However, given the reaction of the mobilized public, this decision was reversed. When Speer was in the USA as an exchange student in 1952, her father was still in the Spandau war crimes prison . Pushed forward by her family, she campaigned for his early release after graduating from high school in 1955. In 1960 she went to London and Paris to audition at government agencies. In the Federal Republic of Germany, she made presentations to Federal President Heinrich Lübke , Pastor Martin Niemöller and the Governing Mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt . Ultimately, her family's efforts to get an early release from prison failed because of the veto of the Soviet Union .

Schramm studied German, Latin and sociology , graduated from several degrees and received her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin , where she worked in teacher training from 1972 to 1982 . At the Technical University of Berlin habilitated herself as an educationalist.

In 1968 Schramm moved into a large house in Berlin-Lichterfelde with a few families who were friends . In doing so, the concept of the middle-class nuclear family and the strict separation of work and leisure should be overcome.

She was married to the German specialist Ulf Schramm (1933–1999). They have a daughter and a son together.

politics

Hilde Schramm was active in various social movements, especially in the peace movement. She is a member of Alliance 90 / The Greens . For the Alternative List in West Berlin , a state association of the Greens, she sat in the Berlin House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987 and from 1989 to 1991 . There she was able to achieve some improvements in terms of the recognition and care of all victims of National Socialism . Memorial plaques to the persecuted Berlin city councilors and Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic also go back to their initiatives. 1989/1990 she was Vice-President of the House of Representatives. It came to a head when she refused to use the opening formula "We express our indomitable will that the wall fall ..." at the beginning of a plenary session. The CDU member Ekkehard Wruck called them in 1991 a “brood of Nazi criminals” and was then expelled from the room.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Schramm set up the regional office for foreigner issues in Brandenburg and was in charge of projects against racism, right-wing extremism and violence. Schramm is one of the founders of the Foundation Returning , which supports Jewish artists and scholars living in Germany. The foundation has so far awarded 100 work grants and project grants.

From 2003, Hilde Schramm was chairwoman of the Association for Contacts with Countries of the Former Soviet Union ( KONTAKTE-KOHTAKTbI ) for a number of years ; she is currently a member of the advisory board there. Together with Eberhard Radczuweit, the voluntary managing director of the association, she drew attention to the fact that former Soviet prisoners of war are legally excluded from any compensation payments or humanitarian aid for performed forced labor as part of the campaign for citizens' engagement for forgotten Nazi victims . In the meantime, the association has been able to send donations and letters to over 7,000 very old former Soviet prisoners of war. Other grassroots political activities include successful work for the Berliner Wassertisch citizens' initiative from 2007 to 2011.

Honors

In 2004, Schramm received the City of Berlin's Moses Mendelssohn Prize , an award for “promoting tolerance towards those who think differently and between peoples, races and religions” for her life's work, especially because of the projects she initiated and supported. The award ceremony took place on September 6th in the French Friedrichstadtkirche on Gendarmenmarkt . Albert Meyer , chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin , protested against the jury's decision to hand over the prize in the Rykestrasse synagogue as a prelude to the Jewish Culture Days. The merits of Hilde Schramm are undisputed, but there are also feelings of Holocaust victims that should be respected. The award ceremony then took place in the French Cathedral on Gendarmenmarkt. Schramm acknowledged that in this case, feelings come before reason. She commented, “My father is much more present in a synagogue than in any other place. I don't want that. It's about my work. ”She gave the prize money of 10,000 euros to the Foundation and to the Association for Contacts with Countries of the Former Soviet Union . In 2019 Schramm received an Obermayer German Jewish History Award .

Fonts (selection)

  • My teacher, Dr. Dora Lux. 1882-1959. Research . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-06421-1 .
  • Intercultural contributions of the RAA Brandenburg e. V. (regional offices for foreigner issues, youth work and schools). Author and editor in particular of the following special issues:
    • Dealing with right-wing extremism in class. Project presentation and catalog with educational modules. Intercultural contributions 32, Potsdam 2000.
    • Local historical studies in 1945 in Brandenburg. Intercultural Contributions 18, Potsdam 1996.
    • Project weeks against exclusion and violence, advice to school colleges in the state of Brandenburg. Intercultural contributions 8, Potsdam (no year) [1994]
  • Action against right-wing extremism in school. In: Richard Faber u. a. (Ed.): Right-wing extremism, ideology and violence. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1995, pp. 136–153.
  • Military and education 1800 to 1918. As well as: Limits of anti-militarist youth education before the First World War. In: Working group teachers and war (Ed.): Teachers help win. War Education in the Empire. Edition Diesterweg University, Berlin 1987, pp. 11–22 and pp. 274–294.
  • Fascism as a lesson topic: suggestions and difficulties - evaluation of interviews with teachers. In: GEW Berlin (ed.): Against forgetting. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1981, pp. 30–82.
  • Women's language - men's language. Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1981. [Editor and author]
  • School internship, work materials to prepare for professional practice through teaching experiments. Beltz, Weinheim / Basel: 1979. [editor and author]

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 335.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Speer daughter Schramm via her Jewish teacher sueddeutsche.de, accessed on December 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ Freebase
  3. ^ Die Welt online December 16, 1999
  4. ↑ Return Foundation
  5. ↑ Contacts / Contacty
  6. ↑ scienzz ticker June 28, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Schramm, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speer, Hilde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Greens), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin