Peter Schramm (administrative lawyer)

Peter Karl Heinrich Schramm (born December 15, 1898 in Altenbochum ; † December 9, 1991 in Brilon ) was an administrative lawyer and district administrator.

Live and act

Peter Schramm studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Münster from 1926 to 1930 and passed his state examination in May 1934 . Until December 1934 he was a city assessor in Wattenscheid and in January 1935 switched to the NSDAP -Gaugericht Westfalen-Süd as a full-time assessor . At the end of the year he became City Assessor in Hamm. On May 18, 1936, he was entrusted with the administration of the Brilon District Office and on December 7, 1936, he was acting District Administrator. On June 22, 1937, he was finally appointed district administrator of the Brilon district and stayed here - with interruptions from January 1941 to May 1942 (as district administrator in Meschede) and from February 1, 1944 (as head of civil administration in Bialystok) until for recall by the District President Arnsberg on May 17, 1945 in office.

Because of his membership in the NSDAP (1932) and the SS (1933) as well as his activity as chairman of the NSDAP district party court in Hamm, he was classified in the denazification process in 1947 initially in category V and one year later in category IV (fellow travelers). A later retrial was rejected by the Interior Ministry. From 1952 to 1956 (waiver of mandate) he was represented as a member of the FDP in the district assembly of Brilon. During this time he worked as a lawyer in Brilon.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 277f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).

Web links

• Peter Schramm, short biography in "Westphalian History"