Jost
Schramm was the son of the historian Percy Ernst
Schramm and the state parliamentarian Ehrengard
Schramm nee von Thadden . His mother's siblings included
resistance fighter Elisabeth von Thadden , who was murdered by the
Nazis, and Reinold von Thadden , the founding president of
the German Evangelical Church Congress . The
historian Gottfried Schramm , who was also proctor of
the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg for a few years , was his
brother.
Jost Schramm attended schools
in Göttingen and Berlin . During the last phase of
the Second World War he did military service and was taken prisoner
of war after the end of the war. Influenced by his uncle and architect Gottfried
Schramm , he began studying architecture
in Braunschweig with Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer in 1947
. In 1949 he continued his studies at the Technical University of
Karlsruhe with Egon Eiermann . With Kraemer and Eiermann,
Schramm learned from the most important representatives of modern
architecture. |
