Consular Agency of the United States, Bremen
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| Coordinates | 53°03′19″N 8°47′01″E / 53.055205°N 8.783617°ECoordinates: 53°03′19″N 8°47′01″E / 53.055205°N 8.783617°E |
| Location | Bremen, Germany |
| Address | Flughafenallee 18, 4th Floor |
| Website | germany |
The Consular Agency of the United States in Bremen, also referred to as Consular Agency Bremen, is one of the American diplomatic missions to Germany. The unit offers limited services for U.S. citizen in areas including Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. Despite that, services such as the issuing of visas or emergency passports are not provided, but can be obtained only from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the Consulate General in Frankfurt or Munich.
Consular relations between Bremen and the United States can be traced back far before the agency's establishment. In 1794, a Consulate, later Consulate General, was established in Bremen under the order of U.S. President George Washington, and the original charter bore his signature. Arnold Delius was appointed consul. It was one of the earliest-opened American missions on the European continent,.
Henry Boernstein was appointed consul in Bremen in 1861, the same year as the start of the American Civil War. Boernstein reported receiving a friendly reception from the Bremen government, but stated:
The rich merchant class of Bremen was, however, less favorable to our Union, and I found among them a strong inclination toward the South and its efforts at succession. This was an entirely natural result of the fact that Bremen did almost all of its business with the southern states.
In 1862, U.S. Senator Charles Sumner reported on the duties of the consul in Bremen, stating:
A large number of American vessels are constantly arriving in Bremen, requiring the immediate attention not only of the consul himself but one or two clerks, and since the establishment of a line of steamers between New York and Bremen the consular duties have been largely increased by the number of American travellers arriving and departing.
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