Hilde Schramm

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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.