Bremen (state)

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Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Flag

Coat of arms

Image:Grosses Wappen Bremen.png
Details

Location

Coordinates

53°6′00″N 8°47′00″E / 53.1, 8.783333Coordinates: 53°6′00″N 8°47′00″E / 53.1, 8.783333

Time zone

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Administration

Country

Germany

NUTS Region

DE5

State subdivisions

2 urban districts

Capital

Bremen

Senate President

Jens Böhrnsen (SPD)

Governing parties

SPD / Alliance '90/The Greens

Votes in Bundesrat

3 (of 69)

Basic statistics

Area

408 km² (158 sq mi)

Population

663,000 (09/2007)^[1]

- Density

1,625 /km² (4,209 /sq mi)

Other information

GDP/ Nominal

€ 24 billion (2005)

Licence plate code

Website

bremen.de

The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (German: Freie Hansestadt Bremen) is the smallest of Germany's 16 Federal States (Bundesländer). A more informal name, but used in some official contexts, is Land Bremen ('State of Bremen').

1 Geography
2 Politics
3 Education
4 See also
5 External links
6 References

Geography

The state of Bremen consists of two separated enclaves: Bremen, officially the 'City' (Stadtgemeinde Bremen) which is the state capital, and the city of Bremerhaven (Stadt Bremerhaven). Both are located on the River Weser; Bremerhaven is further downstream and serves as a North Sea harbour (the name means "Bremen's port"). Both cities are completely surrounded by the neighbouring State of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). The two cities are the only administrative subdivisions the state has.

Politics

Political system

^{This short section requires expansion.}

The Bürgerschaft (city assembly) elects two mayors of the city (Bürgermeister). One of these is then elected by the senate (which forms the executive branch) as president of the senate (Senatspräsident) and is thus head of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

2003 state elections

Dr. Henning Scherf (SPD) remained Mayor and Senate President, in an SPD-CDU grand coalition. As promised he resigned after half of the legislative period. The new Mayor and Senate President since 8 November 2005 is Jens Böhrnsen.

Party	Party List votes	Vote percentage	Total Seats	Seat percentage
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	123,480	42.3% (-0,2)	40 (-7)	48.2%
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	86,819	29.8% (-7,2)	29 (-13)	34.9%
Alliance '90/The Greens	37,350	12.8% (+3,8)	12 (+2)	14.5%
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	12,294	4.2% (+1,7)	1 (+1)	1.2%
Deutsche Volksunion (DVU)	6,642	2.3% (-0,7)	1 (=)	1.2%
Law and Order Offensive Party	12,876	4.3% (+4,3)	0 (=)	0.0%
Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)	4,885	1.7% (-1,2)	0 (=)	0.0%
All Others	7420	2.6% (-0,5)	0 (=)	0.0%
Totals	291,766	100.0%	83 (-17)	100.0%

Seat results -- SPD in red, CDU in black, Greens in green, FDP in yellow, DVU in blue

2007 state elections

The 2007 elections were held on 13 May.

Party	%	+/–	Seats	+/–	%
Social Democratic Party (SPD)	36.8%	–5,5	33	–7	39.8%
Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	25.7%	–4,1	23	–6	27.7%
Alliance '90/The Greens	16.4%	+3,6	14	+2	16.9%
The Left Party.PDS	8.4%	+6,7	7	+7	8.4%
Free Democratic Party (FDP)	6.0%	+1,8	5	+4	6.0%
German People's Union (DVU)	2.7%	+0,4	1	±0	1.2%
Others	4.0%	+1,4	0	±0	0.0%
Totals	100.0%		83		100.0%

Image:Sitzverteilung Bremische Bürgerschaft 2007.png

Seat results -- SPD in red, CDU in black, Greens in green, FDP in yellow, The Left in purple, DVU in brown. Note: The only DVU-representative Siegfried Tittmann left his party in July 2007 and did not join another party since then.

Education

The University of Bremen is the largest university in Bremen. Furthermore Bremen has a University of the Arts Bremen, a University of Applied Sciences in Bremen and another one in Bremerhaven, and more recently the Jacobs University Bremen.

External links

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Bremen

References

^ State population. Portal of the Federal Statistics Office Germany. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.

v • d • e

States of the German Confederation (1815–66)

Empires

Austria

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Kingdoms

Prussia | Bavaria | Saxony | Hanover | Württemberg

Electorates

Hesse

Grand Duchies

Duchies

Principalities

City-states

Bremen | Frankfurt | Hamburg | Lübeck

1: Merged to Anhalt from 1863; 2: until 1847; 3: from 1826; 4: until 1826; 5: until 1850

v • d • e States of the German Empire (1871–1918)
Kingdoms	Prussia \| Bavaria \| Saxony \| Württemberg
Grand Duchies	Baden \| Hesse \| Mecklenburg: Schwerin, Strelitz \| Oldenburg \| Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Duchies	Anhalt \| Brunswick \| Saxony: Altenburg, Coburg and Gotha, Meiningen
Principalities	Schaumburg-Lippe \| Schwarzburg: Rudolstadt, Sondershausen \| Lippe \| Reuss: Elder, Junior \| Waldeck-Pyrmont
City-states	Bremen \| Hamburg \| Lübeck
Other	Alsace-Lorraine \| Colonial possessions

v • d • e

States of Germany during the Weimar Republic (1919–33)

States

Anhalt · Baden · Bavaria · Brunswick · Hesse · Lippe · Mecklenburg-Schwerin · Mecklenburg-Strelitz · Oldenburg · Prussia · Saxony · Schaumburg-Lippe · Thuringia (from 1920) · Waldeck (until 1929) · Württemberg

City-states

Bremen · Hamburg · Lübeck

Until 1920

Saxony	Altenburg · Coburg–Gotha · Meiningen · Weimar-Eisenach
Reuß	Elder · Junior
Schwarzburg	Rudolstadt · Sondershausen

Unofficial states

Bavarian Soviet Republic · Bottleneck · Rhenish Republic

v • d • e States of the Federal Republic of Germany
States	Baden-Württemberg · Bavaria · Brandenburg · Hesse · Lower Saxony · Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · North Rhine-Westphalia · Rhineland-Palatinate · Saarland · Saxony · Saxony-Anhalt · Schleswig-Holstein · Thuringia
City-states	Berlin · Bremen · Hamburg
Former states	Baden · Württemberg-Baden · Württemberg-Hohenzollern