Max Schramm (politician)

Heavily mossy pillow tombstone Max Schramm , Ohlsdorf Cemetery (2016)

Max Schramm (born October 9, 1861 in Maroim, according to today's spelling Maruim , in the state of Sergipe , Brazil , † May 21, 1928 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Schramm came to Germany in 1866 and grew up in Hamburg before moving to the Plön grammar school . He successfully studied law in Heidelberg , where he was a member of the "Hamburger Gesellschaft", and in Berlin . From October 1885 traveled Schramm one year Egypt , India , Persia, where he attended an audience with Naser ad-Din Shah attended, the Caucasus and reached over the Crimea in Turkey . In 1889 he obtained Hamburg citizenship and settled in Hamburg as a lawyer. He later joined the law firm of Albert Wolffson and Otto Dehn, which was founded by Isaac Wolffson . In 1904 he was elected to the Hamburg parliament, where he joined the right-wing parliamentary group. On September 18, 1912, he was elected to the Senate (→  Hamburg Senate 1861–1919 ) for the late Johann Heinrich Burchard and left the citizenry. During the First World War Schramm was given leave of absence from his senate office and from the end of 1916 he succeeded his colleague Friedrich Sthamer in the office of President of the Civil Administration of Antwerp occupied by German troops , which he held until November 1918. Even after the November Revolution, Schramm remained a senator, initially as a demobilization commissioner, from March 1920 he set up the new Hamburg legation in Berlin as envoy , which was located at Königsplatz 5, opposite the Reichstag . From September 1920 Justus Strandes took over the office of Hamburg envoy. Schramm served as the building senator from September 1920 to April 1928 (→  Hamburg Senate 1919–1933 ). He appointed Fritz Schumacher as senior construction director and was then his direct superior. Schramm joined the German People's Party in 1925 and was elected Deputy Mayor of Hamburg. Schramm resigned from his Senate offices on April 4, 1928, as he did not have sufficient support from his parliamentary group. Johannes Hirsch was elected his successor on April 5, 1928.

family

Schramm's father was the Hamburg merchant Ernst Schramm (1812–1882), who ran sugar trading in Brazil. Schramm's mother Adolphine (* 1826), née Jenquel, died of cholera in Brazil on April 10, 1863 . The Hamburg merchant and senator Rudolph Roosen was an uncle of Schramm.

Schramm was married to Olga (* 1869), née O'Swald, a niece of the merchant and Senator William Henry O'Swald . The historian Percy Ernst Schramm comes from marriage.

Honors

In 1925 Schramm was awarded the Mayor Stolten Medal , the highest civic honor in the city of Hamburg next to the award of honorary citizenship.

literature

• Communications of the Geographical Society Hamburg, Volume 40, 1929
• Percy Ernst Schramm : Nine Generations: Three Hundred Years of German "Cultural History" in the Light of the Fate of a Hamburg Citizen Family (1648–1948). Volume I and II, Göttingen 1963/64

Web links

• Newspaper article about Max Schramm in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nine Generations, Volume II; P. 344f
2. ^ Nine Generations, Volume II; P. 499
3. ^ Nine Generations, Volume II; P. 517
4. ^ Nine Generations, Volume II; P. 537
5. ↑ Nine Generations; Volume II, p. 226
6. ↑ Nine Generations; Volume II, p. 433