Josef Schramm (District Administrator)

Josef Schramm (born April 2, 1901 in Hambach ; † September 2, 1991 ) was an administrative lawyer from 1933 to 1945 as the district administrator of the Schleiden district , and from 1943 to 1945 he represented the Monschau district .

Life and career

As the son of the main teacher Jakob Schramm and Maria Schramm, née Huppertz, Josef Schramm studied law in Cologne and Freiburg from 1920 to 1923 after completing high school . During his student days in Cologne, he joined the Catholic German Student Union Rhein-Rappoltstein on May 18, 1920. After completing his studies and taking the first state examination (January 26, 1924), Schramm was appointed government trainee on March 23, 1924 . Even before his big state examination (January 14, 1928), he was then on 29 July 1927 in Cologne with the work of the powers of the supervisory authorities to refuse approval of the budget plan by the local council of a rural municipality Rhine to Dr. jur. PhD .

With the appointment as a government assessor following the state examination , Josef Schramm found employment as an unskilled worker in the district offices in Prüm and from February 1, 1930 in Aachen . Even before Josef Graf von Spee was formally put into temporary retirement by the National Socialists on August 31, 1933, the responsible authorities transferred Josef Schramm to the administration of the Schleiden district on July 28, 1933. In the same year Schramm, who was previously a member of the Center Party , joined the NSDAP . It was not until a good four months later that the provisional transfer took place (December 12, 1933) and on January 26, 1934 the final appointment on February 1, 1934. Josef Schramm was considered loyal to the line, if not fanatical, from the perspective of the new rulers.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Josef Schramm took part in the acts of war in May 1940 with the rank of senior war administrator. From December 1, 1942 to February 28, 1943, and finally from November 15, 1943, however, he was granted work leave. From December 1, 1943, he also took over the management of the Monschau district from Kurt Dingerdissen , who had been dismissed from his post as a combatant since March 27, 1942. Immediately after its liberation by Allied troops, Walter Scheibler was appointed full-time district administrator for the Monschau district on September 12, 1944 . As the front approached, the Schleiden district administration moved on 15/16. November 1944 their headquarters with 40 employees on the Vellerhof south of Blankenheim . Another barracks with ten members of the administration is set up at the Kakushöhle as a branch . The Vellerhof was occupied on March 8, 1945 by parts of the 347th regiment of the 87th US Infantry Division. Two days later, members of the military administration of the 87th US Infantry Division contacted Schramm, who took the opportunity to report that all secret files of the administration, as well as the party documents , had been destroyed or taken to the right bank of the Rhine before the withdrawal of the German Wehrmacht . Schramm was arrested a few days later and did not return for nine weeks. In the meantime, Bruno Klausener had been appointed district administrator. Schramm himself was only released as district administrator on June 16, 1945. Initially, however, continued to work as an employee until March 16, 1946. Not until September 27, 1949 was he formally retired as district administrator on January 1, 1950.

After the Second World War, in 1955, Josef Schramm was one of the founders and board members of the European Association for the Eifel and Ardennes , the second official meeting of which was held in Kronenburg from April 7th to 9th, 1956 . At that time Schramm lived at Buschfelder Hof . Schramm was chairman of the Eifelverein from 1938 to 1945 and from 1954 . Konrad Schubach did not replace him until March 27, 1973 and on the occasion of the celebration of the 85th anniversary of the association. The Eifelverein named the 223 km long main hiking trail 4 from Kreuzau to Trier “Josef-Schramm-Weg” in his honor . In 2015 the “Josef-Schramm-Weg” was renamed “Felsenweg”. Schramm's Nazi past has not yet been dealt with.

family

The Catholic Josef Schramm married Felicitas Vera, called Feevera Rauter, on October 27, 1936 in Cologne (born December 8, 1903 in Cologne), a daughter of the businessman Dr. Heinrich Eugen Leo Rauter and his wife Margarete, née Schumacher.

literature

• Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 734-735 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e f g} Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 734-735 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The Eifelverein under Dr. Josef Schramm I (1938–1945). Retrieved May 5, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Karl J. Lüttgens (ed.): Chronicle of the Schleiden / Euskirchen district and its neighbors 1792–1980. Events-people-places-data connections. Wallraf, Schleiden 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029457-0 .
4. ^ Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 416 .
5. ↑ Landkreistag Nordrhein-Westfalen (Hrsg.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1845–1991, Knipping, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 67.
6. ↑ Bruno Klausener: Five years ago! In: 1951 home calendar of the Eifel border district Schleiden. Ed. Oberkreisdirektor, Schleiden 1950, p. 22.
7. ↑ Landkreistag North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1845–1991. Knipping, Düsseldorf 1992, p. 392.
8. ↑ The Eifelverein under Dr. Josef Schramm II (1954–1973). Retrieved May 5, 2015.
9. ^ Josef-Schramm-Weg. ( Memento of August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 5, 2015.
10. ↑ Stephan Everling: Karl-Kaufmann-Weg renamed General-Anzeiger from August 13, 2019 , due to the Nazi past , accessed on November 11, 2019.