Ehrengard Schramm

Ehrengard "Eta" Schramm von Thadden (1900–1985) was a German politician and writer.

Von Thadden was born into a noble family on 5 October 1900, in Greifenberg, Pomerania[1][2]

Her brother was far-right-wing politician Adolf von Thadden, and her sister, Elisabeth, was a resistance fighter.[1] After Elisabeth's death, Schramm began activist work in 1945.[1] During this time, she travelled to Greece, where she learned how people in Kalavryta had been impacted by Nazis during the Kalavryta massacre of World War II. After this, she provided assistance through the Deutscher Frauenring, a German feminist organization.[3] Through her efforts, many people from the region completed studies in Germany.[2]

In 1957, she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Two years later, she became Göttingen's SPD representative in the Lower Saxony State Parliament, a position she held for two terms.[1][2]

Von Thadden married historian Percy Ernst Schramm,[2] with whom she had three sons.[4] She died on 30 June 1985,[1][5] and was buried in Hamburg.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Ehrengard Schramm". SPD Göttingen (in German). Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ehrengard Schramm und ihr Hilfswerk für Griechenland". Blog zum Deutsch-Griechischen Jugendaustausch (in German). 18 May 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  3. ^ Roth, Dr Karl Heinz; Rübner, Hartmut (10 December 2021). Repressed, Remitted, Rejected: German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-80073-258-2.
  4. ^ Damico, Helen; Zavadil, Joseph B. (23 June 2014). Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: History. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-94334-1.
  5. ^ "Ehrengard Schramm-von Thadden". Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (in German). Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  6. ^ "Schramm, Ehrengard - Niedersächsische Personen". Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library (in German). Retrieved 1 November 2025.

Further reading

  • von Thadden, Rudolf (2013). Trieglaff: Balancing Church and Politics in a Pomeranian World, 1807-1948. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-857-45928-2.
  • Karpouchtsis, Charalampos (2024). German Foreign Policy and Greek Martyr Communities: Reconciliation Policy for Places of Memory in Greece and the Role of Recognition. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-658-44370-2.


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