List of presidents of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce
The Bremen Chamber of Commerce has been based in the historic Schütting House on Bremen's market square , directly opposite the town hall , since 1849 . The Praeses ( President ) is the chairman of the Presidium . He calls the plenary (plenary assembly) and chairs it (Section 6 (2) of the statutes).
President of the Chamber of Commerce
19th century
Albrecht Nikolaus Schütte 1849; Carl Engelbert Klugkist 1854; Johann Ludwig Ruyter 1855; Hermann von Fischer 1856, 1859, 1862; Johann Diedrich Koencke 1861; Hermann Henrich Meier 1863, 1872; Hermann Skröder Gerdes 1866; Chr. Herm. Noltenius 1867, 1870; Johann Friedrich Gustav Hurm 1868; Johann Theodor Arens 1869; Johannes Fritze 1871; Johann Heinrich Theodor Claussen 1873; Johann Abraham Albers 1874, 1877; Johann Eggers 1875; Franz Ernst Schütte 1876; Friedrich Reck 1878; August Georg Nebelthau 1879; Carl Friedrich Geyer 1880; Johannes C. Achelis 1881; Christoph Hellwig Papendieck 1882; Rudolph Philip Tewes 1883; Johann Heinrich Gildemeister 1884; Theodor Gustav Hoffmann 1885; Louis Ed. Meyer 1886, 1894; Hermann Melchers 1887; Gustav Pagenstecher 1888; F. Theodor Lürman 1889; Dr. H. H. Meier Jr. 1890, 1895; Hermann Segnitz 1891; Theodor Peter Friedrich Gruner 1892, 1896; Detmar H. Finke 1893; Lambert Leisewitz 1897; Caspar G. Kulenkampff 1898; Georg Plate 1899
20th century
Friedrich Ludwig Tilman Achelis 1900; Carl Wilhelm August Fritze 1901; Ludolph Ernst Bernhard Müller 1902; Friedrich August Gotthard Reck 1903; Johann Ludwig Schrage 1904; Philipp Cornelius Heineken 1905; Eduard Friedrich Georg Michaelsen 1906; Friedrich Ludwig Möller 1907; Everhard Carl Gruner 1908; Johann Carl Vietor 1909; Hermann Heinrich Graue 1910; Christian Heinrich Emil Wätjen 1911; Friedrich Adolph Segnitz in 1912; Peter Ferdinand Lentz 1913; Alfred Lohmann 1914, 1915; Eduard Alfred Achelis 1916, 1927; Erich Fabarius 1917; Wilhelm Biedermann 1918; Dr. August Wilhelm Strube 1919; August Georg Nebelthau 1920; Gottfried Heinrich Koch 1921; Johannes Daniel Volkmann 1922; Carl Moritz Hoffmann 1923; Senator Hermann Rodewald 1924; Friedrich Hermann Noltenius in 1925; Johann Martin von Düring 1926; Arnold Erich Julius Petzet 1928; Caspar Ludwig Menke 1929; Ernst Conrad Kellner 1930; G. Carl Lahusen 1931; Gustav Scipio 1931-1933; Karl Bollmeyer 1933-1943; A. Held 1933-1943; Martin Heinrich Wilkens 1945–1951; Dr. Fritz Rangen 1952–1955; Eduard Schilling 1956–1957; Robert Kabelac 1958-1959; Richard Bertram 1960–1961; Werner Kulenkampff 1962–1963; Eduard Nebelthau 1964–1965; Walther J. Jacobs 1966-1967; Werner Vinnen 1968–1969; Nic. H. Schilling 1970-1971; Herbert Waldthausen 1972–1973; Peter Otto Engisch 1974–1976; Carl Rudolf Erling 1977–1979; Dr. Horst Willner 1980–1985; Friedo Berninghausen 1986–1988; Dieter Harald Berghöfer 1989–1991; Josef Hattig 1992–1997; Bernd Hockemeyer 1997-2000
21st century
- 2001-2004: Dirk Plump
- 2004–2007: Patrick Wendisch
- 2007-2010: Lutz H. Peper
- 2010–2013: Otto Lamotte
- 2013–2016: Christoph Weiss (* 1965)
- 2016–2019: Harald Emigholz (* 1953)
- Since January 2019: Janina Marahrens-Hashagen
literature
- Lydia Niehoff: 550 years of independence. Chronicle of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce . Schünemann, Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-7961-1827-5 . (Contains, among other things, a list of the presidents of the Collegium Seniorum and the Bremen Chamber of Commerce from 1552 to 2001.)