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Events in Bremen History

Wilhelm II

1901-03-06 In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

1919-02-04 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
1921-04-14 Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1942-06-25 British RAF stages a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen, Germany (WWII)
1942-09-05 British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen

Famous People from Bremen

1654-09-29 Vincenz Lubeck, German composer, born in Padingbüttel, Duchy of Bremen, Sweden (d. 1740)
1707-01-22 Carl Höckh, German composer and violinist, born in Ebersdorf, Duchy of Bremen (d. 1773)
1758-10-11 Wilhelm Olbers, German astronomer and physician, discovered asteroids (Pallas & Vesta), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1840)
1770-09-19 Johann Georg Repsold, German scientific instrument maker, astronomer, and fireman, born in Wremen, Duchy of Bremen, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1830)
1810-10-22 Henry Bohlen, German-American Brigadier General (Union Army), Bremen, Germany (d. 1862)
1831-04-14 Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer and ambassador in Abyssinia, born in Vegesack, Bremen, Germany (d. 1896)
1856-08-30 Carle David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician and physicist, born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1927)
1858-03-23 Ludwig Quidde, German politician and pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1927), born in Bremen (d. 1941)
1865-12-13 Gustav Luders, German-American conductor and stage musical composer (The Prince of Pilsen), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1913)
1877-05-03 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst, born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1925)
1883-12-26 Carl Ahues, German Chess Master (1950), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1968)
1887-06-23 Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1960)
1890-05-26 Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudes/portraits), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1972)
1893-09-20 Hans Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1972)
1906-10-30 Alexander Gode, German-American linguist, born in Bremen, Imperial Germany (d. 1970)
1909-09-09 Jane Baxter [Fedora Kathleen Alice Forde], German actress (We Live Again), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1996)

1910-04-12 Jürgen Rausch, German philosopher and author (End of the Playboys), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1995)
1913-03-18 Reinhard Hardegen, German WWII U-Boat commander (sunk 25 ships), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 2018)
1913-06-17 Felix Hartlaub, German historian and writer, born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1945)
1914-12-14 Karl Carstens, German politician (President of the Federal Republic of Germany 1979-84), born in Bremen, German Empire (d. 1992)
1918-11-20 Dora Ratjen, German man who posed as a female high jumper (Olympic 4th 1936), born in Erichshof, Bremen, Germany (d. 2008)
1923-10-22 Bert Trautmann, German soccer goalkeeper (Manchester City 508 games; FWA Footballer of the Year 1956), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 2013)
1926-04-18 Günter Meisner, German actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Between Wars, Adolf Hitler, Quiller Memorandum), born in Bremen, Weimar Republic (d. 1994)
1929-04-17 James Last, German-born composer and big band bandleader, born in Bremen, Germany (d. 2015)
1938-02-01 Heinz Steinmann, German soccer defender (3 caps West Germany; Schwarz-Weiß Essen, 1. FC Saarbrücken, Werder Bremen), born in Essen, Germany (d. 2023)
1939-06-17 Hanna Johansen, Swiss writer, born in Bremen, Germany
1951-01-25 Hans-Jürgen Dörner, German soccer defender (96 caps; Dynamo Dresden 400 games) and manager (Werder Bremen), born in Görlitz, Germany (d. 2022)
1955-12-20 Ed Kuepper, Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter (The Saints), born in Bremen, Germany
1957-11-06 Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist, born in Bremen, Germany
1970-10-10 Corinna May, German blind singer ("I Can't Live Without Music"), born in Bremen, Germany