Timeline of Bremen

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bremen, Germany.

Prior to 19th century

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19th century

Bremen around 1900

20th century

1900-1945

  • 1901 – Bremen Cathedral great restoration completed.[2]
  • 1902 – Kunsthalle (art museum) enlarged.
  • 1905 – Population: 214,953; state 263,673.[2]
  • 1906 – Production of decaffeinated Kaffee Hag coffee begins.[10]
  • 1911 – Rathscafé built.
  • 1913
  • 1919 – Population: 257,923.[11]
  • 1920 – New constitution put into effect.
  • 1923 – Bremer Flugzeugbau aircraft manufactory in business.
  • 1925 – Fahrzeugwerke Borgward automobile manufactory in business.
  • 1928 – Population: 302,949.
  • 1932 – Reichskolonialehrendenkmal [de] (monument) unveiled.
  • 1933
  • 1939
  • 1940
  • 1942 – 2nd SS construction brigade (forced labour camp) established by the SS.[15]
  • 1943 – Bremen-Farge subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp established. The prisoners were mostly French, Polish and Soviet men.[16]
  • 1944
    • 15 April: 2nd SS construction brigade relocated to Berlin.[15]
    • 2 August: Bremen-Hindenburgkaserne subcamp of Neuengamme established. Its prisoners were Jewish women.[17]
    • 16 August: Bremen-Neuenland subcamp of Neuengamme established. Its prisoners were mostly French and Soviet men.[18]
    • August: Bremen-Blumenthal subcamp of Neuengamme established. Its prisoners were mostly Belgian, French, Polish, Soviet and Jewish men.[19]
    • 26 September: Bremen-Hindenburgkaserne subcamp of Neuengamme dissolved[17] and Bremen-Obernheide subcamp established. Prisoners moved from Hindenburgkaserne to Obernheide.[20]
    • 28 November: Bremen-Neuenland subcamp of Neuengamme dissolved[18] and Bremen-Osterort subcamp established. Prisoners moved from Neuenland to Osterort.[21]
    • 25/26 December: Bremen-Schützenhof subcamp of Neuengamme established. Its prisoners were mostly Jewish men.[22]
Liberated French and Dutch slave workers following the British capture of the city in 1945
  • 1945
    • 4 April: Bremen-Obernheide subcamp of Neuengamme dissolved. Prisoners sent on a death march to Uesen.[20]
    • 6 April: Bremen-Osterort subcamp of Neuengamme dissolved. Prisoners moved to the Bremen-Farge subcamp.[21]
    • 7–9 April: Blumenthal and Schützenhof subcamps of Neuengamme dissolved. Prisoners moved to the Bremen-Farge subcamp.[19][22]
    • 10 April: Bremen-Farge subcamp of Neuengamme dissolved. Prisoners either sent on death marches to Bremervörde and Sandbostel or deported by train towards the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.[16]
    • 22 April: Bombing of Bremen in World War II ends.
    • April: City captured by British forces.
    • Wilhelm Kaisen becomes mayor.

1946-1990s

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Germany". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Britannica 1910.
  3. ^ Philippe Dollinger (1970). The German Hansa. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0742-8.
  4. ^ A. V. Williams (1913). Development and Growth of City Directories. Cincinnati, USA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ a b c Haydn 1910.
  6. ^ Georg Friedrich Kolb [in German] (1862). "Deutschland: Bremen". Grundriss der Statistik der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde (in German). Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung.
  7. ^ a b c d Brockhaus 1896.
  8. ^ a b Lee 1999.
  9. ^ "German Empire". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
  10. ^ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
  11. ^ "Germany: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via Hathi Trust.
  12. ^ Cygański, Mirosław (1984). "Hitlerowskie prześladowania przywódców i aktywu Związków Polaków w Niemczech w latach 1939–1945". Przegląd Zachodni (in Polish) (4): 52.
  13. ^ Cygański, p. 54
  14. ^ "Arbeitserziehungslager Bremen-Blumenthal". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  15. ^ a b "Bremen (2nd SS Construction Brigade)". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  16. ^ a b "Bremen-Farge". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  17. ^ a b "Bremen-Hindenburgkaserne". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  18. ^ a b "Bremen-Neuenland". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  19. ^ a b "Bremen-Blumenthal". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  20. ^ a b "Bremen-Obernheide". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  21. ^ a b "Bremen-Osterort". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  22. ^ a b "Bremen-Schützenhof". KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  23. ^ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Germany (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
  24. ^ "German mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

  • Thomas Nugent (1749), "Bremen", The Grand Tour, vol. 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030762572
  • David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Bremen". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
  • Edward Augustus Domeier (1830), "Bremen", Descriptive Road-Book of Germany, London: Samuel Leigh, hdl:2027/hvd.hx167e
  • Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Bremen". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. Vol. 2. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064794.
  • "Bremen", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1873
  • "Bremen". Handbook for North Germany. London: J. Murray. 1877.
  • John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Bremen", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
  • Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Bremen", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
  • "Bremen". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • "Bremen", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379
  • "Bremen (city)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 493–494.
  • Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Bremen", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
  • Joseph Lins (1913). "Bremen". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Wilson King (1914), Chronicles of Three Free Cities: Hamburg Bremen, Lübeck, London: Dent
  • Robert Lee (1999). "Urban Labor Markets, In-Migration, and Demographic Growth: Bremen, 1815–1914". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (3): 437–473. JSTOR 206909.
  • Robert Lee & Peter Marschalck (2002). "Port-city legacy: urban demographic change in the Hansestadt Bremen, 1815-1910". In Richard Lawton & W. Robert Lee (eds.). Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c.1650-1939. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-435-7.

in German

  • "Stadt Bremen". Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris. Topographia Germaniae (in German). Frankfurt. 1653. p. 60+.
  • Karl von Hegel (1891). "Bremen". Städte und Gilden der germanischen Völker im Mittelalter (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. hdl:2027/wu.89094689700 – via HathiTrust.
  • "Bremen". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896. hdl:2027/njp.32101064064452.
  • Wilhelm von Bippen (1904), Geschichte der Stadt Bremen, Halle: C.E. Müller, OL 20530009M
  • P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Bremen". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
  • Bremen [Chronicles of the German Cities]. Die Chroniken der Deutschen Städte (in German). Vol. 37. Leipzig: S. Hirzel. 1968.

External links

  • Europeana. Items related to Bremen, various dates
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