Bremerhaven

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The town was founded in 1827, but neighboring settlements such as Lehe were in the vicinity as early as the 12th century, and Geestendorf was "mentioned in documents of the ninth century".{{Citation|last1=Dierks|first1=August, Dr.|last2=von Garvens|first2=Eugenie|title=Bremerhaven: Busy – Breezy – Booming – Town|year=1954|publisher=The Chamber of Commerce and Industry|location=Bremerhaven}} p. 8. Fourth revised edition. Translated into English from the original German edition titled Bremerhaven – tätige Stadt im Noordseewind These tiny villages were built on small islands in the swampy estuary. In 1381, the city of Bremen established de facto rule over the lower Weser stream, including Lehe, later therefore called Bremerlehe. Early in 1653, Swedish Bremen-Verden's troops captured Bremerlehe by force.

The Emperor Ferdinand III ordered his vassal Christina of Sweden, then Duchess regnant of Bremen-Verden, to restitute Bremerlehe to Bremen. However, Swedish Bremen-Verden began the First Bremian War (March – July 1654). In the subsequent peace treaty ({{Interlanguage link multi|Recess of Stade (1654)|de|3=Erster Stader Vergleich|lt=First Stade Recess}}; November 1654) Bremen had to cede Bremerlehe and its surroundings to Swedish Bremen-Verden. The latter developed plans to found a fortified town on the site, and much later this location became the present-day city of Bremerhaven. In 1672, under the reign of Charles XI of Sweden, in personal union Duke of Bremen-Verden—colonists tried unsuccessfully to erect a castle (named Carlsburg after Charles XI) there; this fortified structure was meant to protect, as well as control shipping heading for Bremen.

Finally, in 1827, the city of Bremen under Bürgermeister Johann Smidt bought the territories at the mouth of the Weser from the Kingdom of Hanover. Bremen sought this territory to retain its share of Germany's overseas trade, which was threatened by the silting up of the Weser around the old inland port of Bremen. Bremerhaven (literally in {{langx|en|Bremer Haven/Harbour}}) was founded to be a haven for Bremen's merchant marine, becoming the second harbour for Bremen, despite being {{convert|50|km|0|abbr=on}} downstream. Due to trade with, and emigration to, North America, the port and the town grew quickly. In 1848, Bremerhaven became the home port of the German Confederation's Navy under Karl Rudolf Brommy.

The Kingdom of Hanover founded a rival town next to Bremerhaven and called it Geestemünde (1845). Both towns grew and established the three economic pillars of trade, shipbuilding and fishing. Following inter-state negotiations at different times, Bremerhaven's boundary was several times extended at the expense of Hanoverian territory. In 1924, Geestemünde and the neighbouring municipality of Lehe were united to become the new city of Wesermünde, and in 1939 Bremerhaven (apart from the overseas port) was removed from the jurisdiction of Bremen and made a part of Wesermünde, then a part of the Prussian Province of Hanover.

Bremerhaven was one of the important harbours of emigration in Europe.{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/21533369.2001.9668313|title = Work in progress: Indirect passage from Europe Transmigration via the UK, 1836–1914| journal=Journal for Maritime Research| volume=3| pages=70–84|year = 2001|last1 = Evans|first1 = Nicholas J.|doi-access=free}}

As possibly the most critical North Sea base of the Kriegsmarine, 79%{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/theatres-of-war/western-europe/investigation/hamburg/sources/docs/6/|title=The National Archives – World War II – Western Europe 1939–1945: Hamburg – Why did the RAF bomb cities?|first=The National|last=Archives|website=www.nationalarchives.gov.uk|access-date=20 March 2018}} of the city was destroyed in the Allied air bombing of Bremen in World War II; however, key parts of the port were deliberately spared{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} by the Allied forces to provide a usable harbour for supplying the Allies after the war. All of Wesermünde, including those parts which did not previously belong to Bremerhaven, was a postwar enclave run by the United States, separate to but within the British zone of northern Germany. Most of the US military units and their personnel were assigned to the city's Carl Schurz Kaserne. One of the longest based US units at the Kaserne was a US military radio and TV station, an "Amerikanischer Soldatensender", AFN Bremerhaven, which broadcast for 48 years. In 1993, the Kaserne was vacated by the US military and returned to the German government.

In 1947 the city became part of the federal state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and was consequently renamed from Wesermünde to Bremerhaven. Today, Bremerhaven is a city in its own right, but also part of the city-state of Bremen, which is for all intents and purposes a state comprising two cities. In addition to being part of the federal state, the city of Bremen has owned the "overseas port" within Bremerhaven since 1927. This and other parts of Bremerhaven owned by the city of Bremen are known as stadtbremisch. To complicate matters, a treaty between the two cities (as mentioned in Section 8 of Bremerhaven's municipal constitution) makes Bremerhaven responsible for the municipal administration of those parts owned directly by Bremen.Verfassung für die Stadt Bremerhaven ([http://www.bremerhaven.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=344 VerfBrhv] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518111829/http://www.bremerhaven.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=344 |date=May 18, 2006 }}); § 8(1) Zum Stadtgebiet gehören alle Grundstücke, Fluß- und Hafenanlagen der ehemaligen Stadt Wesermünde. Gemeindeverwaltungsmäßig wird die Stadt Bremerhaven im Gebiet des stadtbremischen Überseehafens aufgrund eines Vertrages zwischen den Städten Bremen und Bremerhaven zuständig.

Frosta AG, a frozen food company which is a market leader in Germany{{cite web |title=Brand and Sales – FRoSTA AG |url=https://www.frosta-ag.com/en/company/brand-and-sales/ |access-date=2018-08-24 |website=FRoSTA Aktiengesellschaft aus Bremerhaven}} and one of the largest frozen food companies in Europe, as well as Nordsee, one of Europe's leading fish restaurant chains, are headquartered in Bremerhaven.{{Cite web |date=2013-03-08 |title=NORDSEE GmbH – Bremerhaven.de |url=https://www.bremerhaven.de/en/economy/enterprises/nordsee-gmbh.27382.html#:~:text=NORDSEE%20GmbH%20%E2%80%93%20Bremerhaven.de. |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=Seestadt Bremerhaven |language=en}} BLG Logistics operates Europe's largest car transshipment center and car workshop in the city.{{Cite web |last=WFB |title=The biggest car park in Europe |url=https://www.wfb-bremen.de/en/page/bremen-invest/investing-in-bremen-automotive-industries-the-biggest-car-park-in-europe-blg-logistic-group-ag |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=www.wfb-bremen.de |language=en}}

The port of Bremerhaven is the sixteenth-largest container port in the world and the fourth-largest in Europe with {{TEU|4.9 million|first=yes}} of cargo handled in 2007{{cite news|work=Lloyds List Daily Commercial News|last=Van Marle|first=Gavin|pages=8–9|date=2008-01-31|title=Europe Terminals stretched to limit}} and 5.5 million in 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.weser.de/index.php?id=29|title=weser.de – Seehäfen & Seeschifffahrt: Bremische Häfen|website=www.weser.de|access-date=2016-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329002803/http://www.weser.de/index.php?id=29|archive-date=2014-03-29|url-status=dead}} The container terminal is situated on the bank of the river Weser opening to the North Sea. In the wet dock parts, accessible by two large locks, more than 2 million cars are imported or exported every year with 2.3 million in 2014. Bremerhaven imports and exports more cars than any other city in Europe. Another million tons of "High-and-Heavy" goods are handled with ro-ro ships. In 2011 a new panamax-sized lock has replaced the 1897 Kaiserschleuse, then the largest lock worldwide.

{{See also|Ports of Bremen}}

Aerial view of Bremerhaven (2019).jpg|Aerial view of Bremerhaven

Karte der Häfen in Bremerhaven.png|Harbors of Bremerhaven

A Weser watershed closer.gif|The river Weser flows by Bremen to the estuary at Bremerhaven (top)

HB 2016-0607 photo32 Bremerhaven sea port.jpg|Skyline of Havenwelten-district

HB 2016-0607 photo34 Bremerhaven sea port.jpg|Overseas port of Bremerhaven

Container-Terminal Bremehaven (2019).jpg|Bremerhaven container port

2013-05-03 Fotoflug Nordholz Papenburg HP 1430.JPG|Locks and docks around Lloyd Werft

Jade-weser-muendung map de.png|Bremerhaven on the east bank of the Weser

Bremerhaven has a temperate maritime climate; severe frost and heat waves with temperatures above {{convert|30|°C|0}} are rare. On average, the city receives about {{convert|751|mm|1|abbr=on}} of precipitation distributed throughout the year, with a slight peak in the summer months between June and August and a slightly drier season in late winter and early spring. Snow does fall in winter and early spring and, more rarely, in late autumn. However, it usually does not stay on the ground for long. The hottest temperature ever recorded was {{convert|35.9|°C|1}} on 20 July 2022, and the coldest was {{convert|-18.6|°C|1}} on 25 February 1956.{{cite web|url=http://www.dwd.de/bvbw/appmanager/bvbw/dwdwwwDesktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=_dwdwww_klima_umwelt_klimadaten_deutschland&T82002gsbDocumentPath=Navigation/Oeffentlichkeit/Klima__Umwelt/Klimadaten/kldaten__kostenfrei/ausgabe__mittelwerte__node.html?__nnn=true|title=Wetter und Klima – Deutscher Wetterdienst – Startseite|website=www.dwd.de}}

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| location = Bremerhaven (1991–2020 normals). Extremes 1949-2023

| metric first = Y

| single line = Y

|Jan record high C=13.6

|Feb record high C=17.2

|Mar record high C=22.5

|Apr record high C=28.9

|May record high C=31.7

|Jun record high C=34.3

|Jul record high C=35.9

|Aug record high C=35.8

|Sep record high C=30.8

|Oct record high C=26.0

|Nov record high C=18.8

|Dec record high C=14.0

|year record high C=35.9

|Jan record low C=-17.2

|Feb record low C=-18.6

|Mar record low C=-14.6

|Apr record low C=-4.9

|May record low C=-1.1

|Jun record low C=3.0

|Jul record low C=7.1

|Aug record low C=7.5

|Sep record low C=3.6

|Oct record low C=-2.1

|Nov record low C=-10.2

|Dec record low C=-15.6

|year record low C=-18.6

|Jan high C = 4.5

|Feb high C = 5.1

|Mar high C = 8.3

|Apr high C = 13.2

|May high C = 16.8

|Jun high C = 19.6

|Jul high C = 22.0

|Aug high C = 22.1

|Sep high C = 18.5

|Oct high C = 13.7

|Nov high C = 8.5

|Dec high C = 5.3

| year high C = 13.1

|Jan mean C = 2.5

|Feb mean C = 2.9

|Mar mean C = 5.3

|Apr mean C = 9.4

|May mean C = 13.1

|Jun mean C = 16.1

|Jul mean C = 18.4

|Aug mean C = 18.4

|Sep mean C = 15.1

|Oct mean C = 10.8

|Nov mean C = 6.4

|Dec mean C = 3.4

|year mean C = 10.1

|Jan low C = 0.5

|Feb low C = 0.6

|Mar low C = 2.5

|Apr low C = 5.8

|May low C = 9.5

|Jun low C = 12.7

|Jul low C = 15.0

|Aug low C = 15.0

|Sep low C = 12.0

|Oct low C = 8.1

|Nov low C = 4.2

|Dec low C = 1.5

| year low C = 7.3

| precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 62.0

|Feb precipitation mm = 47.9

|Mar precipitation mm = 48.6

|Apr precipitation mm = 36.2

|May precipitation mm = 49.8

|Jun precipitation mm = 72.4

|Jul precipitation mm = 84.1

|Aug precipitation mm = 77.9

|Sep precipitation mm = 72.1

|Oct precipitation mm = 67.6

|Nov precipitation mm = 63.9

|Dec precipitation mm = 71.2

| year precipitation mm =751.3

| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 18.4

|Feb precipitation days = 16.1

|Mar precipitation days = 15.8

|Apr precipitation days = 13.1

|May precipitation days = 14.0

|Jun precipitation days = 15.9

|Jul precipitation days = 15.8

|Aug precipitation days = 16.6

|Sep precipitation days = 15.6

|Oct precipitation days = 16.6

|Nov precipitation days = 18.0

|Dec precipitation days = 19.3

|year precipitation days = 194.4

|Jan sun = 46.3

|Feb sun = 69.0

|Mar sun = 121.2

|Apr sun = 184.9

|May sun = 219.4

|Jun sun = 204.7

|Jul sun = 217.3

|Aug sun = 200.3

|Sep sun = 149.6

|Oct sun = 105.4

|Nov sun = 52.2

|Dec sun = 38.1

|year sun = 1604.8

|Jan humidity = 87.5

|Feb humidity = 84.7

|Mar humidity = 80.6

|Apr humidity = 74.0

|May humidity = 73.3

|Jun humidity = 75.5

|Jul humidity = 75.7

|Aug humidity = 75.8

|Sep humidity = 79.1

|Oct humidity = 82.8

|Nov humidity = 87.3

|Dec humidity = 88.9

| year humidity =80.2

|unit snow days = 1.0 cm

|Jan snow days = 3.4

|Feb snow days = 3.7

|Mar snow days = 1.5

|Apr snow days = 0

|May snow days = 0

|Jun snow days = 0

|Jul snow days = 0

|Aug snow days = 0

|Sep snow days = 0

|Oct snow days = 0

|Nov snow days = 0.1

|Dec snow days = 3.0

|year snow days = 11.3

| source 1 = NOAA{{cite web

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| archive-date = 16 September 2023

| url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Germany/CSV/Bremerhaven_10129.csv

| title = Bremenhaven Climate Normals 1991–2020

| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

| access-date = 16 September 2023}}

|source 2 = Deutscher Wetterdienst,: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150923224940/http://www.dwd.de/bvbw/generator/DWDWWW/Content/Oeffentlichkeit/KU/KU2/KU21/klimadaten/german/download__mw__sonne__akt,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.zip/download_mw_sonne_akt.zip Mittlere Sonnenscheindauer 1961–1990] European Climate Assessment and Dataset,{{cite web|url=http://www.ecad.eu/download/millennium/millennium.php|title=Indices data|website=www.ecad.eu|access-date=20 March 2018}} and Dekadenrekorde deutscher Städte{{cite web|url=http://www.wettergefahren-fruehwarnung.de/Artikel/dek_xn_05.html|title=Extreme Temperatures|website=wettergefahren-fruehwarnung.de|access-date=31 May 2018}}

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Due to its unique geographic situation,{{clarify|date=February 2024}} Bremerhaven suffers from a few transportation difficulties. The city has been connected to the autobahn network since the late 1970s. The A 27 runs north–south, east of the city, connecting Bremerhaven to Bremen and Cuxhaven. Road connections to Hamburg, however, are poor. The Bundesstraße 71 and secondary roads therefore carry most of the heavy lorry traffic. A proposed solution is the construction of the A 22, the so-called Küstenautobahn (or "coastal motorway"), which would link Bremerhaven to Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg (using the Weser tunnel). Roads leading to the overseas port are frequently overloaded with freight traffic, and solutions are presently{{when|date=February 2024}} being discussed, including a deep-cut road favoured by the city government and various interest groups.

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Bremerhaven has three active passenger rail stations: Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof in the city centre, Bremerhaven-Lehe north of the centre and Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf in the southern part of the city. All three stations are served by hourly Bremen S-Bahn trains on the line RS 2 as well as regional services to Cuxhaven and Buxtehude on the line RB 33.

Additionally, Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof is served by regional express trains to Hanover (RE 8) and Osnabrück (RE 9) and was reconnected to Deutsche Bahn's Intercity network in late 2021, after nearly 20 years without long-distance rail services in the city.{{Cite web|url=https://www.butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/fernverkehr-deutsche-bahn-bremerhaven-zug-100.html|title=Nach 20 Jahren fährt wieder ein IC ab Bremerhaven - buten un binnen|website=www.butenunbinnen.de|accessdate=16 March 2023}}

A fourth station, Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel near the border with Langen, has been out of service since 1988. Apart from passenger traffic, the railways in Bremerhaven carry a heavy load of freight traffic from and to the seaport, mostly new cars, containers and food.

In 2020, Bremerhaven had a bus network with 19 bus routes operated by BREMERHAVEN BUS. Two of the bus routes are night routes that only run on weekends. In addition, there is the Schnellbus-Line S, which serves selected stops and is therefore faster.{{Cite web|last=Paul Homann|title=Bremerhavener Streckennetze - Tram and bus route networks since 1881 |url=https://bremerhavenbus.de/fileadmin/downloads/Bremerhavener-Streckennetze_v21.pdf |page=109|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828073447/https://bremerhavenbus.de/fileadmin/downloads/Bremerhavener-Streckennetze_v21.pdf|archive-date=2020-08-28}} BREMERHAVEN BUS operates up to 87 regular buses through the company Verkehrsgesellschaft Bremerhaven AG (VGB).{{Cite web|last=Paul Homann|title=VGB-Linienbusse - Buses for the town bus network|url=https://busse-weser.org/download/VGB-Fahrzeugliste.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101100504/https://busse-weser.org/download/VGB-Fahrzeugliste.pdf|archive-date=2021-01-01}} There are numerous regional buses operated by other companies that depart from Bremerhaven Central Station, to Bad Bederkesa, Beverstedt, Hagen, Nordholz and Otterndorf. In addition, Bremerhaven is also served by buses from Flixbus.

Bremerhaven had a tram service from 1881 to 1982.{{Cite web|last=Paul Homann|title=Bremerhavener Streckennetze - Tram and bus route networks since 1881 |url=https://bremerhavenbus.de/fileadmin/downloads/Bremerhavener-Streckennetze_v21.pdf|page=3 & 46 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200828073447/https://bremerhavenbus.de/fileadmin/downloads/Bremerhavener-Streckennetze_v21.pdf|archive-date=2020-08-28}}

In its heyday, in 1949, there were six lines.{{Cite web|title=VGB Fahrplan 1949 - Original Timetable from the year 1949 // Book Archive from Paul Homann, Bremerhaven|url=https://busse-weser.org/download/VGB-Fahrplan-1949.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625171724/https://busse-weser.org/download/VGB-Fahrplan-1949.pdf|archive-date=2020-06-25}} The last line was Line 2 from the north of the city to the main train station; but this was shut down on 30 July 1982.{{Cite web|last=Paul Homann|date=|title=Bremerhavens Nahverkehr, Chronik - recent history since 1980 - German text|url=https://busse-weser.org/download/Bremerhavens_Nahverkehr_Chronik.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419062004/https://busse-weser.org/download/Bremerhavens_Nahverkehr_Chronik.pdf|archive-date=2021-04-19|access-date=|website=|page=16}}

{{Wide image|Panorama Radarturm Bremerhaven 25.jpg|1200px|Panoramic view of Bremerhaven from Bremerhaven Radar Tower. On the left side the city including Columbus-Center are some tourist attractions and the :de:Havenwelten just under construction.}}

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Bremerhaven has only a few historical buildings, and the high street and city centre are almost entirely post-war. The main attractions for tourists are found at the Havenwelten and include an attraction about climate change, the {{ill|Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost|de|Klimahaus Bremerhaven}}, the German Emigration Center (since 8 August 2005) and the German Maritime Museum (Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum) by Hans Scharoun from 1975, featuring the Hansekogge, a vintage cog dating from 1380, excavated in Bremen in 1962, and the historical harbour (Museumshafen) with a number of museum ships, such as the Type XXI U-boat Wilhelm Bauer (a museum of its own), and the salvage tug Seefalke from 1924. The Bremerhaven Zoo reopened on 27 March 2004, after a lengthy renovation. It features Arctic wildlife, both terrestrial and marine. The latest addition is the Klimahaus from 2009, simulating travel adventure along the 8th line of longitude and dealing with climate issues. Two gazebos can be found on top of the Atlantic Hotel Sail City and the Radar Tower. Another tourist spot is the Fischereihafen (fishing port) in Geestemünde which also houses an aquarium (the Atlanticum). The Lloyd Werft shipyard is renowned for building and renovating large cruise liners, for example Norway.

Every five years Sail Bremerhaven is held, a large sailing convention that attracts tall ships from all over the world. The last time it was held was in 2015 with over 270 vessels and 3,500 crew members.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sail-bremerhaven.de/|title=SAIL – Bremerhaven|website=www.sail-bremerhaven.de|access-date=2016-07-28}} In 2011 Bremerhaven set the record for the largest ever parade of boats, with 327 vessels in the parade. This record was broken in 2012 by the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, with 1,000 boats.{{cite web|title=Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant cheered by crowds |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18312403 |access-date=4 June 2012 |work=BBC News|date=3 June 2012}}

The passenger terminal Columbuskaje, built at the Weser bank in 1927 to avoid time-absorbing locking, has been transferred into a cruise terminal (Columbus Cruise Center Bremerhaven/CCCB). Also three marinas are available, the latest accessible through a new lock at Neuer Hafen.

Bremerhaven has a city council with 49 members. It also elects 15 members of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen.

{{historical populations

|1845|3000

|1875|12296

|1900|20315

|1925|23896

|1933|25779

|1950|114070

|1956|130492

|1961|141849

|1970|143918

|1980|138728

|1990|130446|2001|118701|2011|108156|2022|118133|footnote=Population size may be affected by changes in administrative divisions.|cols=2|align=none}}

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The Fischtown Pinguins, also known as REV Bremerhaven, are a professional ice hockey team in the DEL, Germany's top ice hockey league.

Eisbären Bremerhaven (Polar Bears), founded 2001, is a basketball team playing in the German second-tier level league ProA.

The American Football team is the Bremerhaven Seahawks which play in the German Regio Nord of the 3rd League. The Seahawks are the second oldest team in Germany.

Local association football clubs are Leher TS, SFL Bremerhaven and until 2012 FC Bremerhaven. TSV Wulsdorf and OSC Bremerhaven also have a football teams but as part of a multi-sport club.

Bremerhaven is home to the Alfred Wegener Institute, a national research institute which is concerned with maritime sciences and climate and keeps a number of research vessels, amongst them the heavy research icebreaker RV Polarstern. It also runs the Neumayer Station III in the Antarctic.

The Fraunhofer Society {{ill|Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology|de|Fraunhofer-Institut für Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik}} maintains research laboratories in Bremerhaven for development and testing of Wind Power components.{{Cite web|title=Fraunhofer IWES Laboratories |url=http://www.iwes.fraunhofer.de/en/labore.html|url-status=dead|archivedate=April 19, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419161248/http://www.iwes.fraunhofer.de/en/labore.html}}

The German Maritime Museum is part of the German Leibniz Association.

The {{ill|Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences|de|Hochschule Bremerhaven}} (Hochschule Bremerhaven) was founded in 1975 and is expanding since with more than 3.000 students in 2009. The university is attended by a large number of students from all over the world. Among the courses offered are Process Engineering, Information Technology and the BA Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership programme, the first programme modelled after the Finnisch Team Academy format in a German language higher educational institution.[https://startblog.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Studiengangsbroschüre-GIF-2019.pdf Studiengangs broschüre] (in German)

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{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany}}

Bremerhaven is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Städtepartnerschaften|url=https://www.bremerhaven.de/de/verwaltung-politik/zahlen-fakten/staedtepartnerschaften/staedtepartnerschaften.23487.html|website=bremerhaven.de|date=21 September 2016|publisher=Bremerhaven|language=de|access-date=2021-02-10}}

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• {{flagicon|FRA}} Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France (1960)
• {{flagicon|ENG}} Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England, UK (1963)
• {{flagicon|FIN}} Pori, Finland (1969)
• {{flagicon|DEN}} Frederikshavn, Denmark (1979)
• {{flagicon|POL}} Szczecin, Poland (1990)
• {{flagicon|RUS}} Kaliningrad, Russia (1992)

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The three roads connecting the city of Bremerhaven to the Autobahn 27 consequently are named after the original three twin towns:

• Cherbourger Straße (AS Bremerhaven-Überseehafen)
• Grimsbystraße (AS Bremerhaven-Mitte)
• Poristraße (AS Bremerhaven-Geestemünde)

In addition to that, there are also streets which earlier had been named after Szczecin (Stettiner Straße) and Kaliningrad (Königsberger Straße).

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• Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), architect, volunteer at the port construction.{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Semper, Gottfried |volume= 24 |page= 632 |short=1}}
• Johanna Goldschmidt (1807–1884), social activist, writer and philanthropist
• Oda Olberg (1872-1955), journalist, socialist and feminist.
• Erich Koch-Weser (1875–1944), lawyer and politician
• Wolfgang Gaede (1878–1945), physicist and pioneer of vacuum engineering
• Helmut Yström (1881–1963), politician, Senator in Bremen, 1945–1948, local chief of police
• Hans Scharoun (1893–1972), grew up in Bremerhaven, architect and exponent of organic architecture
• Betty Schade (1895–1982), German-born American actress of the silent era
• Carl H. Hermann (1898–1961), professor of crystallography
• Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), biochemist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939
• Lou Jacobs (1903–1992), American clown and entertainer
• Karl-Georg Saebisch (1903–1984), German-language theater, film and television actor, director and honorary member of the Municipal Theatre Bremerhaven
• Lale Andersen (1905–1972), singer and actress, sang WW2 song "Lili Marleen"
• Johannes Piersig (1907–1998), Kantor, docent for organ playing,
• Carola Höhn (1910–2005), stage and movie actress
• Werner Grübmeyer (1926–2018), local politician
• Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), historian, studied role of Adolf Hitler in German history
• Roger Asmussen (1936–2015), politician (CDU), German Minister of Economy and Transport in 1987
• Norman Paech (born 1938), university professor and politician (The Left)
• Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp (1943–2004), German-American architect
• Hans Joachim Alpers (1943–2011), writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy
• Hans Joachim Schliep (born 1945), Lutheran theologian, pastor and author
• Jeanne Córdova (1948–2016), American pioneer lesbian and gay rights activist
• Uwe Beckmeyer (born 1949), politician (SPD)
• Anton Zensus (born 1958), radio astronomer & director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
• Heino Ferch (born 1963), actor & voice actor
• Volker Engel (born 1965), visual effects supervisor and producer
• Christoph Maria Herbst (born 1966), actor and comedian at Stadttheater Bremerhaven 1992–1996
• Corinna Harney (born 1972), German-American model and actress
• Anders Levermann (born 1973), environmental scientist and climatologist
• Jenny Dolfen (born 1975), illustrator and teacher

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• Walter Schmidt (born 1937), footballer, played 299 games
• Willi Reimann (born 1949), former footballer and football coach, played 304 games
• Felix Magath (born 1953), football player and coach, played 382 games and 43 for [[Germany national football team|

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• Bernd Brexendorf (born 1954), footballer and doctor
• Tomas Seyler (born 1974), darts player
• Lars Toborg (born 1975), football player, played over 280 games
• Clemens Schoppenhauer (born 1992), footballer, played 216 games
• Esra Sibel Tezkan (born 1993), Turkish-German footballer

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120726025128/http://www.auswandererhaus.de/english/hauptseite_e.html Auswandererhaus]
• [http://www.dsm.museum/ Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (in German)]
• [http://www.hs-bremerhaven.de/en/ Hochschule Bremerhaven (in English)]
• [http://www.awi.de/en/ Alfred Wegener Institut (in English)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20180409215424/https://www.bremerhaven-360.de/ 360 QTVR Panos]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070825165657/http://www.cimx.de/ Fullscreen panos]
• [http://www.battlefieldsww2.com/remnants-from-world-war-ii-in-bremerhaven.html German Naval Base Bremerhaven 1939–45]
• [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yesI7EnyH7W_hLu0Rd5t-VjXGHZHomff?usp=sharing/view 20th century timetables]

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