Ehrengard Schramm

Ehrengard Schramm (nee von Thadden, born October 5, 1900 in Pommern in Pomerania, † June 30, 1985 in Göttingen) was a German politician (SPD ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament.

Life

Ehrengard Schramm came from a noble family Thadden and was the youngest child of the multiple landowner Adolf von Thadden (1858-1932) and his first wife Ehrengard von Gerlach (1868-1909) was born. Her half-brother Adolf von Thadden was a politician of various right-wing parties. Her sister Elisabeth von Thadden was executed in 1944 as a resistance fighter.

After Ehrengard Schramm had in 1920 purchased the High School in Berlin, she began a teacher training and graduated in 1924 in Hamburg, the teachers exam. She studied for a short time at a university and then married in 1925, the historian Percy Ernst Schramm. She has worked as a writer and has written two books that deal with the recent Greek history. She was involved in a managerial capacity for a charity of the German Women's Rings for places in Greece that had been destroyed by German troops in World War II. In the years 1953-1956 she was a member of the Council in Göttingen. For her work her the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany was awarded in the form of a neck cross. On May 6, 1959 to June 5, 1967 she was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament ( 4th and 5th term ). They had three children.