M EN 945
BREMEN.
(Fkeie Hanpestadt Bremen.)
Bremen is a Free State, with a Constitution adopted on May 15, 1920. The highest power in the State is exercised r>y the House of Burgesses (Burger- schaft), consisting of 120 members, elected on a democratic basis by all citizens of the State. The Biirgerschatt elects the Senate of 14 members as the Executive body. Two Burgenneister chosen from the members of the Senate preside over the deliberations of that body.
The results of the elections for the House of Burgesses held on June 6, 1920 were :— Majority Socialists, 22 : Independent Socialists, 37 ; Commu- nists, 5 ; Democrats, 17 ; German People's Party, 25 ; Christian People's Party, 2 ; Retailers, 6 ; German National People's" Patty, 6.
Area, 99 square milrs ; population census (1919), 311,266; (July 1, 1920) Bremen, 264,170 ; Bremerhaveu, 22,159.
On Dec. 1, 1910, Bremen contained 257,930 Protestants (87 2 per cent.), 21,074 Roman Catholics (7'1 percent.), 1,217 other Christians, 1,251 Jews, others 14,243. Marriages in 1919, 3,512 ; births, 4,755 ; deaths, 3,798 ; exce>s of deaths, 6.
Bremen contains two Amtsgerichte and a Landgericht, whence appeals lie to the 'HanseatischeOberlandesgericht' at Hamburg.
In 1919 the revenue was 55,579,739 marks, and expenditure 82,214,151 marks. Public debt on April 1, 1917, 294,095,500 marks.
Next to Hamburg, Bremen was the largest port for the international trade of Germany. Seventy-five per cent, of the commerce was, in 1912, under the German, and about 10 per cent, under the British flag.
Total number of emigrants who embarked at Bremen, 1912, 7,974 ; 1913, 9,710; 1914, 6,260 ; 1915, 4,231.
Railways, 31 miles, owned and worked by the State.
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