Frederick Schramm

The Honourable Frederick Schramm
11th Speaker of the House of Representatives
In office 25 September 1943 – 12 October 1946
Prime Minister	Peter Fraser
Preceded by	Bill Barnard
Succeeded by	Robert McKeen
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Auckland East
In office 2 December – 12 October 1946
Preceded by	James Donald
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	28 March 1886 Hokitika, New Zealand
Died	28 October 1962 Auckland, New Zealand
Political party	Labour

Frederick William (Bill) Schramm (28 March 1886 – 28 October 1962) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was the eleventh Speaker of the House of Representatives, from 1944 to 1946.

Schramm was born in Hokitika in 1886. His Danish parents had arrived in New Zealand in the 1860s. He received his education at Hokitika High School and at Canterbury College. He was a prominent sports person in his younger years in athletics, cricket, and hockey, and represented Canterbury College in the New Zealand University championships for two years.

He married Alice Amelia Peard in 1918; they had two daughters. Schramm started his professional career as a clerk with the Justice Department and held positions in Wanganui and Te Kuiti before World War I, and Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland after the war. He was a solicitor and barrister for the last nine years before his election to Parliament.

In the 1928 election, he contested the Hamilton electorate but came third. He was the Member of Parliament for Auckland East from 1931 to 1946; when he was defeated for the new electorate of Parnell. Originally an ally of John A. Lee, they fell out and Schramm moved for Lee's expulsion at the 1940 Labour conference. Lee supported the National candidate Duncan Rae who defeated Schramm in the Parnell electorate in 1946.

Schramm was a member of the Auckland University College Council until his resignation in 1942.

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