State Representation of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Bonn)

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Former State Representation of Bremen (2008)

The representation of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen at the federal government had its seat on Bonn's bank of the Rhine in the district Südstadt from 1949 to 1999 . The former buildings of the state representative are located on Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße (house numbers 7-9) above the Rathenau shore.

history

State representation of Bremen (1967)

The Villa Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 9 was built before 1920 according to a design by the architect Paul Rust (1880-1960) in the reform style. 35% of it had been destroyed in the war and was exposed to the elements due to the missing roof. The villa was owned by Robert Baums (* 1871), owner of a watch and gold goods wholesaler and former consul of Mexico . He had set up an apartment in the house for his own needs, but had not yet done a complete reconstruction. In mid-July 1949, the property was one of the objects that the legal advisor to the Bremen representative at the then Economic Council of the United Economic Area in Frankfurt am Main in the context of an exterior inspection of six buildings in the preselection for the accommodation of the Bremen state representative office to be set up at the provisional German seat of government Confederation included. The then State Councilor Wilhelm Haas conducted corresponding purchase negotiations in Bonn, which concentrated on Villa Schaumburg-Lippe-Strasse 9. On August 2, 1949, the Senate approved the purchase of the property for a price of 150,000 DM, which was completed in September. In the purchase agreement , Bremen undertook to build a small house for the previous owner on the property with a value of no more than DM 30,000, to rent it to him and grant him lifelong right of residence.

On the basis of a contract dated October 4, 1949, the later Federal President Karl Carstens became the first representative of Bremen to head the newly opened state representation. The repairs - especially the restoration of the roof - and the furnishing of the building were gradually carried out by the Bremen building authorities. A four-room apartment was set up for the Carstens couple on the first floor and guest rooms were set up on the second floor. The interior consisted, among other things, of loans from the Bremen Kunsthalle . There were initially no special social rooms. The new state representative office was inaugurated in October 1950. At the house to be built for the previous owner Baums, cuts in the equipment had been made due to construction cost increases. After completion of the building on November 1, 1950, Baums therefore refused to move into it until January 1951 and accused Bremen of deliberately refurbishing the house in a primitive manner in order to have it torn down again after his death.

From the beginning of April 1950, the hotel ship Knurrhahn of the North German Lloyd , a former barracks of the Kriegsmarine with 75 beds and a public restaurant, anchored in front of the state representation . Various alterations to the building followed from 1954. In 1973 the Villa Schaumburg-Lippe-Strasse 7 was also rented for the state representative . In 1976, the agency opened a cellar in the basement, under the name cabin was known as much-used venue in the following years. It was a facility of the Bremerhaven shipyard, which was equipped in the maritime style with portholes and ship's bell.

In the course of the relocation of the seat of parliament and government , the Bremen state representation with 25 employees moved to Berlin in 1999 . As early as 1998, Bremen had sold Villa Schaumburg-Lippe-Strasse 9 for 4.5 million euros to the Deutsche Poststiftung , which also acquired Villa Schaumburg-Lippe-Strasse 7 previously rented by Bremen and its institute for the future of work in both buildings operates. The entrance door with the Bremen coat of arms fell victim to a recent renovation (as of 2013) on the house at Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 9 .

See also

literature

  • Angelika Schyma : The houses of the state representations in Bonn . In: Kerstin Wittmann-Englert, René Hartmann (eds.): Buildings of the countries: The regional representations in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2013, pp. 17–55 (here: pp. 30–31) . ISBN 978-3-89870-796-1 .

Web links

Commons : Landesvertretung Bremen Bonn  - Collection of pictures

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b Angelika Schyma: The houses of the state representations in Bonn
  2. ^ German gender book (Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien) , Volume 147, 1968, p. 239.
  3. ↑ Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung , Volume 44, 1941, p. 125.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Helmut Vogt: Bridgeheads: The Beginnings of the State Representations in Bonn 1949–1955 . In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , ISSN  0035-4473 , volume 64/2000, pp. 309-362. ( online )
  5. ↑ a b City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt: "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , pp. 235/236.
  6. ^ Selling, renting out, exploiting: Farewell to the Länder , General-Anzeiger, February 9, 1998, Bonn city edition, p. 3

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '49 "  N , 7 ° 6' 35.9"  E