Representation of the state of Bremen at the federal level

The authorized representative of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen at the federal level and for Europe
State level	Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
position	State representation
Supervisory authority	Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
founding	1949 in Bonn, move to Berlin in 1999
Headquarters	Berlin
Authority management	Olaf Joachim
Web presence	Homepage of the representation

State representative in Hiroshimastraße

Sculpture of the Bremen Town Musicians in front of the State Representation

The representation of the state of Bremen at the federal government is based at Hiroshimastraße 24 in the Berlin district of Tiergarten in the Mitte district ( embassy district ). The official name of the authorities is: The authorized representative of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen at the federal government, for Europe and development cooperation .

authority

As early as 1949, Bremen set up a state representative in Bonn . The first representative of Bremen was the future Federal President Karl Carstens .

State Councilor Olaf Joachim (SPD) has been the representative of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen at the federal level since August 2019 . He is a member of the Senate and reports only to him in the executive branch .

tasks

The representation takes on the following tasks: Accompanying the German Bundestag, political presence in Berlin, contact with associations, federal authorities, embassies and networks, active personnel development in Berlin, information events.

Department for Federal Affairs: Accompaniment of federal laws that are dealt with in the Federal Council (e.g. 553 laws between 2009 and 2013), expert assessments of every draft law, representation in the 16 specialist committees of the Federal Council

European Department: liaison with European politics and administration; Fundamental questions of European policy, cross-departmental coordination of EU affairs, information for the citizens of Bremen, representation of Bremen in the European Union , European public and educational work ( EuropaPunktBremen information office, etc.) with offices in Bremen and Brussels .

building

The current building is located on the southern edge of the zoo in the embassy district , the western part of the zoo district . The cost of the new building amounted to 15.3 million euros. The building opened on September 10, 1999. The complex also includes an eight-story guest house. In the neighboring building to the north is the embassy of the United Arab Emirates , whose northern neighbor is the state representation of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Authorized representative of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

From 1947 to 1949 Wilhelm Haas represented Bremen's interests as State Councilor for Mayor Wilhelm Kaisen in relation to the emerging federal states. After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the federal representatives from 1949 to 1971 were state councilors who were not assigned to any senator. From 1971 to 1995 the federal representatives were senators, they had senate directors as representatives. Since 1995 they have been state councilors again and at the same time members of the Senate - i.e. members of the government - without being directly subordinate to a senator.

Surname	Start of office	End of office	status
Karl Carstens	1949	1954	State Council
Heinrich Barth	1954	1960	State Council
Fritz Richter	1961	1971	State Council
Karl Willms	1971	1979	senator
Günther Czichon	1979	1983	senator
Wolfgang Kahrs	1983	1987	senator
Klaus Wedemeier	1987	1987	senator
Vera Rudiger	1988	1991	Senator
Uwe Beckmeyer	1991	1995	senator
Erik Bettermann	1995	2001	State Council
Kerstin Kießler	2001	2011	State Councilor
Eva Quante-Brandt	2011	2012	State Councilor
Ulrike Hiller	2012	2019	State Councilor
Olaf Joachim	2019		State Council

literature

Kerstin Wittmann-Englert, René Hartmann (Hrsg.): Buildings of the countries. The state representations in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels , 2013, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, pp. 164–169. ISBN 978-3-89870-796-1 .

Web links

Commons : Representation of the state of Bremen at the federal level - collection of images, videos and audio files

52.507601880556 13.35734725Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '27.4 " N , 13 ° 21' 26.5" E

State Representation Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Hiroshimastraße 22, 24, 26 on the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on December 1, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ Analogous to the designation of senatorial offices in Bremen, this authority name is based on the gender of the manager - see The Senator for Finances .
↑ From Bavaria to Saxony-Anhalt: How the states present themselves in the capital . In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 1, 2002
↑ Representations of the federal states - New Architecture: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
↑ The authorized representatives since 1947

[1] Analogous to the designation of senatorial offices in Bremen, this authority name is based on the gender of the manager - see The Senator for Finances .

[2] From Bavaria to Saxony-Anhalt: How the states present themselves in the capital . In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 1, 2002

[3] Representations of the federal states - New Architecture: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[4] The authorized representatives since 1947