Freie Hansestadt Bremen Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Flag	Coat of arms
Details
Location
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	664,000 (10/2007)[1]
- Density	1,627 /km² (4,215 /sq mi)
Other information
GDP/ Nominal	€ 24 billion (2005)
Licence plate code	HB
Website	bremen.de

The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (German: Freie Hansestadt Bremen) is the smallest of Germany's 16 Federal States (Bundesländer). This article is about the Coat of arms of the German state and city of Bremen. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, ( NUTS) for the French nomenclature d'unités territoriales statistiques, is a Geocode This is a list of urban districts in Germany. Germany is divided into 429 districts (not to be confused with the larger Regierungsbezirk) these consist Bremen (ˈbʁeːmən is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany (official name Stadtgemeinde Bremen / City Municipality of Bremen The German city-state of Bremen is governed by the Senat (senate executive Jens Böhrnsen (born June 12 1949 in Bremen) is a German politician of the SPD. A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral The Bundesrat ("federal council" or "upper house of German parliament" is the representation of the 16 Federal States ( Bundesländer) of Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume German car number plates ( Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Germany (Deutschland is a Federal Republic consisting of sixteen States, known in German as Länder (singular A more informal name, but used in some official contexts, is Land Bremen ('State of Bremen').

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). Bremen (ˈbʁeːmən is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany (official name Stadtgemeinde Bremen / City Municipality of Bremen Bremerhaven (bʁeːmɐˈhaːfən is the seaport of the free city and federal state of Bremen, Germany. Both are located on the River Weser; Bremerhaven is further downstream and serves as a North Sea harbour (the name means "Bremen's port"). The Weser (ˈveːzɐ is a River in north-western Germany. Formed at Hann The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences) or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the Weather or are stored Both cities are completely surrounded by the neighbouring State of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). Lower Saxony ( German: Niedersachsen ch is pronounced before an s --> lies in north-western Germany and is second The two cities are the only administrative subdivisions the state has.

Politics

Political system

The Bürgerschaft (city assembly) elects two mayors of the city (Bürgermeister). The Bürgerschaft of Bremen is the state diet of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The German city-state of Bremen is governed by the Senat (senate executive 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. Henning Scherf (born 31 October, 1938 in Bremen) is a German Lawyer and Politician. A grand coalition is a Coalition government in a Multi-party Parliamentary system where the two largest political parties unite in a coalition As promised he resigned after half of the legislative period. The new Mayor and Senate President since 8 November 2005 is Jens Böhrnsen. Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jens Böhrnsen (born June 12 1949 in Bremen) is a German politician of the SPD.

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. State elections were held in Bremen on 13 May 2007 to elect the Bürgerschaft (city and state legislature Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

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. The University of Bremen ( German Universität Bremen) is a university of approximately 23500 people from 126 countries that are studying teaching researching and 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. The University of the Arts Bremen (German Hochschule für Künste Bremen, HfK Bremen is a publicly funded university in Bremen, Germany and one of Bremerhaven (bʁeːmɐˈhaːfən is the seaport of the free city and federal state of Bremen, Germany. Jacobs University Bremen is an independent privately-funded and highly-selective research University in Bremen, Germany.

See also

• Former countries in Europe after 1815

External links

• Official state portal
• Official governmental portal
• Constitution of the state, German only

References