Hilde Schramm

Hilde Schramm (born 1936) is a German politician. Internationally she is most known as the daughter of Albert Speer, who was a member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle and the Third Reich's Chief Architect. He served twenty years in prison for crimes against humanity after World War II.

As a teenager, Schramm was awarded a competitive scholarship to study in the United States. The US government initially refused her a visa, but reversed its decision in the face of publicity, including offers of hospitality from several families (some of them Jewish).

Schramm became a prominent European political figure who distinguished herself for helping victims of anti-semitism and Nazi atrocities. She is also a publisher and sociologist. In 1994, she was awarded the Moses Mendelssohn Award from Berlin for her work. Schramm is active in politics, and has been a leader of the Green Party in Berlin. She has also served as vice president of the Berlin city council.

She is interviewed extensively in the 2005 docudrama "Speer und Er".

External links

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1462286,00.html Hilde Schramm in an interview 'I feel ashamed']
* [http://www.ijn.com/archive/2004%20arch/091704.htm Schramm receives the Moses Mendelssohn Award]