Club in Bremen
The Club of Bremen , with its more than 220-year history of the oldest social club in Germany .
history
The Club zu Bremen was created in 1931 through the merger of the Bremen Society from 1914 and the Museum Society, which was founded in 1783 . President in 1932 was Friedrich Roselius , a brother of Ludwig Roselius , the coffee merchant and founder of the Kaffee HAG company .
The number of members in 1933 was 1,250, all men, because the statutes did not give women access until 2000. Today the club has around a thousand members, made up of representatives from Bremen society, business, science, culture and politics. The club also has an independent junior group.
The society had its club rooms in the council rooms (today Deutsches Haus ) until 1926 and then moved to Böttcherstrasse - first in the St. Petrus house and later in the Atlantis house . Since the Second World War , the traditional society has had its club rooms in the basement of the historic Schütting house opposite the Bremen town hall.
aims
While the Bremen Society set itself the goal of promoting “the sociability of merchants, industrialists, scholars and others” in 1914 , and the Museum Society emerged from a reading club and a later-founded scientific branch, today the club pursues “exclusively and directly “The purpose of cultivating international cooperation in all areas.
Chairwoman of the club after 1945
- 1947–1948 Richard Ahlers
- 1948–1958 Wilhelm Volkmann
- 1958–1964 Alfred Meyer
- 1964–1980 Carl Otto Merkel
- 1980–2002 Friedrich Wilhelm Bracht , honorary member
- 2002–2008 Klaus Berthold
- since 2008 Rüdiger Hoffmann
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- The Bremen Club: The Bremen Club 1783–2008 - 225 years in four centuries. Schünemann Verlag , 2009, ISBN 978-3-7961-1935-4 .