Typisch bremisch Typically “Bremish”

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Wenig Romantik, dafür viel harte Arbeit: Hafenarbeiter zu
Beginn der 1950er-Jahre
Lots of hard work and not at all romantic:
dock workers in the early 1950s
nomic structure of the city and state right through to the
21st century”, according to Elmshäuser. Aviation, another
modern key branch, emerged during the 1920s with construction
of the airport on Neuenlander Feld, foundation
of the Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugwerke (aircraft engineering
works) and the first trans-Atlantic flight from East to West.
Merchant capital was also ploughed into new branches
such as fishing or fruit trading. In those days, Bremen’s
merchants already played a leading role in cotton and rice,
sheep’s wool, jute and tobacco.
the focus to education and science, with the founding of
the university as a key recent infrastructure measure, for
example, emphasising research and technology without
neglecting its industrial core. As a high-tech region,
Bremen now concentrates on three innovation clusters:
maritime economy and logistics, the aerospace sector and
wind energy.
“The strength of these industries, trading and the port
helped Bremen during the reconstruction period after
World War Two”, Elmshäuser continues. The end of the
20th century brought a profound structural change, with
shipbuilding at the heart of the earthquake. The city’s
economic structure had to be realigned. Bremen shifted