Otto Schramme

Otto Schramme

Otto Karl Wilhelm Schramme (born October 1, 1898 in Berlin ; † May 25, 1941 near Iraklion ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), police president and SA leader , most recently in the rank of Obergruppenführer.

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After attending the 160th community school and the V Realschule, Otto Schramme was taught at the Kirchner Oberrealschule in Berlin . From 1917 he took part in the First World War, in which he was promoted to sergeant and seriously wounded. He was also awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Front Fighter Honor Cross. From 1920 Schramme worked as a civil servant for the Reich Finance Administration, most recently as senior tax inspector and senior tax secretary in Hagen .

Schramme had been politically active in circles of the extreme right since 1919. After he had initially belonged to the German Protection and Defense Association and from 1924 to the National Socialist Freedom Movement , he joined the NSDAP in 1925 ( membership number 28,705) and the SA. In the SA, Schramme led Brigade 66 in Münster from the end of September 1933 to the end of January 1934, then the SA group Lower Saxony in Braunschweig until July 1934 and then the SA group Westphalia in Dortmund until his death . At the beginning of July 1933 he was promoted to brigade leader in the SA, in November 1934 to group leader and in November 1937 finally to Obergruppenführer.

In October 1935 Schramme was appointed police chief of Dortmund .

Schramme was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1932 until the dissolution of this body in autumn 1933 . He then sat from November 1933 until his death in 1941 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 17 (North Westphalia) . His mandate was then continued by Max-Albert Lorenz until the end of the war . From 1935 to 1940 he was a member of the Westphalian Provincial Council.

Schramme died in 1941 during the airborne battle for Crete as a participant in the Second World War and a member of the parachute force.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 586.
• Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 273 ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16)

Web links

• Otto Schramme in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Otto Schramme on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"