Bremen Press Club
The Bremer Presse-Club was founded in Bremen in 1971 as a non-profit association and in 1974 moved into a specially built building in Schnoor .
history
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Bremen businessman Waldemar Koch , senior at Schmidt + Koch, and his wife Louise donated a house to the Bremen journalists in 1971 through the Waldemar Koch Foundation , which was to be built in Schnoor . A carrier was required for this. On January 3, 1971, eight journalists from Bremen (Bertram Biedermann, Karl-Heinz Gross, Manfred Reckelkamm, Walfried Rospek, Werner Schröder, Wolfgang Schumacher and Lilo Weinsheimer ) founded the Bremen Press Club. Wolfgang Schumacher became the first association chairman. The association was to manage and operate the future Waldemar-Koch-Haus as a meeting place, to promote education, to train the next generation of journalists and to maintain international relations in the spirit of international understanding . According to plans by the architectural association Flügger and Schleuter - winners of a competition - the building with 481 m² of usable space was built on the Schnoor 27/28 plot from 1972 to 1974. The Waldemar Koch house stands as part of the Memorial group Schnoorviertel under monument protection .
In 1990 the Bremen Press Club had 222 personal and 32 cooperative members.
Events
Press conferences, panel discussions, seminars, lectures, exhibitions, general meetings and meetings for social events take place in the Waldemar-Koch-Haus. It has become one of the centers of Bremen culture and politics.
Cooperations
The Bremen Press Club cooperates with the German press research in the State and University Library Bremen at the University of Bremen and with the Hermann Ehlers Academy in Bremen.
Guests
The Bremen Press Club welcomed a number of prominent guests in the Waldemar Koch House, including (alphabetically, as of 1990):
Ernst Albrecht , Hans Apel , Egon Bahr , Gerhart Baum , Kurt Biedenkopf , Willy Brandt , Karl Carstens , Klaus von Dohnanyi , Herbert Ehrenberg , Hans Friedrich , Anke Fuchs , Liselotte Funcke , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Julius Hackethal , Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , Karl-Günther von Hase , Karl Holzamer , Udo Jürgens , Hans-Ulrich Klose , Helmut Kohl , Hanna-Renate Laurien , Walther Leisler Kiep , Hans Matthöfer , Ulf Merbold , Wolfgang Mischnick , Asher Ben-Natan , Otto Prokop , Will Quadflieg , Annemarie Renger , Marie Schlei , Helmut Schmidt , Jürgen Schmude , Helga Schuchardt , Gerold Tandler , Horst Teltschik , Gyula Trebitsch , Herbert Wehner , Richard von Weizsäcker .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 22.6 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 33.2" E