Content: Foundation of the North German Confederation, also election to the first Reichstag, 1866-1871 - Emperor and Imperial House 1868-1902 - Constitution 1866-1885 - Trade and traffic conditions 1867-1875 - Postal conditions, in particular post and telegraph facilities in Bremen, 1867-1910 - Railways 1868-1897 - Customs 1866-1900 - Stock Exchange Act 1891-1904 - Shipping to sea 1867-1901 - Seamen's Association and Seamen's Regulations 1867-1902 - Maritime Marks, Reichskanzler 1867-1901 - Bundesrat, in particular Bremischer Bevmächtigter beim Bundesrat, 1867-1933 - Reichstag, in particular Reichstag elections in Bremen, 1867-1918 - Various matters in the fields of legislation and administration, in particular passwords 1867-1871, civil status and marriage 1868-1891, Insurance 1877-1903, measures and weights 1868-1897, emigration 1891-1903, trade regulations 1867-1908, statistics 1867-1900, labour law 1914-1928 - Franco-German War 1870/71, in particular measures to protect the Weser and claims for compensation for angry ships, 1870-1897 - Colonialism 1885-1907
Content: Origin and development of Bremerhaven 1825-1862 - Acquisition and expansion of the port area 1824-1845 - Border regulations, sovereignty issues and expansion of the area 1827-1876 - Battery (Fort Wilhelm) and other military rights of Hanover and Hanover respectively Prussia 1820-1872 - Relations to Lehe, transit traffic and road construction between Bremen and Bremerhaven through Hanoverian territory 1827-1873 - Land acquisition and settlement for the establishment of a port at the Geeste estuary by Hanover 1817-1830 - Organisation, construction and extension of the port facilities: Old Port 1826-1878, New Port 1845-1872, Imperial Port 1871-1900, Imperial Port II and III 1900-1908 - Deputation at Bremerhaven, Deputation for the ports and port facilities, Deputation for the ports and railways, in particular protocols 1827-1891 - Accounting books of the Deputation and the Office of Bremerhaven, Budgets and accounts 1828-1920 - Port inventory lists, lists of ships lying in port 1833-1842 - Port staff, in particular Port Director Jacob Johann van Ronzelen and Carl Friedrich Hanckes, Hafenmeister, Schleusenmeister und -knechte, Hafenlotsen 1827-1902 - Amtmann und Amtsassessor, especially reports of the Amtmänner Johann Heinrich Castendyk, Johann Thulesius, Georg Wilhelm Gröning und Friedrich August Schultz 1827-1904 - Rechnungswesen und Visitationen des Amts 1829-1887 - Amtsschreiber, Police commissioners, police dragons, tax collectors and other officials 1827-1898 - lawyers, notaries, consuls and consular agents, auctioneers 1831-1904 - laws and regulations 1826-1901 - taxes and duties 1834-1874 - port authorities, Port regulations, port dues 1827-1902 - Public land, buildings and facilities, including the office building and port house, ferries and bridges, shipyards and ship berths, emigration centre, fire brigade, water supply, road construction and sewage system, gas station, cemetery 1829-1910 - settlement, Cultivation and trade, in particular allocation of building sites, basic letters, trade supervision, guilds 1827-1925 - administration of justice and police, including criminal investigation of the dynamite attack against the steamship ''Mosel'' (1875) 1827-1902 - municipal constitution and administration, Community Citizenship, Accounting 1837-1902 - General Church Relations 1827-1866, Unierte Gemeinde 1833-1903, Meiergefälle from Walle and Gröpelingen 1758-1852, Lutheran Community (Kreuzkirche) 1862-1902, Catholic community (Marienkirche) 1849-1902 - school system 1827-1897 - poor system 1836-1881 - medical system 1827-1901 - markets 1852-1890 - death and support funds, associations, municipal savings bank 1862-1907 - military conditions, quartering 1869-1884
Content: Foreign duties 1423-1864 - Mitteldeutscher Handelsverein 1828-1834 - Prussian-Hessian, later Deutscher Zollverein until 1850 [individual pieces lost] - Steuerverein (Nordwestdeutscher Zollverein) 1835-1853 - negotiations on the unification of the German states for the protection of trade and shipping interests 1842-1852 - Bremen's position on the German Customs Union and the German Reich in customs matters in general 1851-1896 - connection of parts of Bremen's territory to the Zollverein territory 1869-1885 - inclusion of the entire territory of Bremen in the customs borders 1877-1898
Content: Administration of services, personnel, cash management and accounting - Collection of legal provisions and decrees, including judicial decisions on postal, telegraphic and telephone services - International postal agreements and treaties with individual states - Supervision and regulation of postal services, organisation of subordinate postal and telegraph institutions - German postal institutions abroad, especially in German New Guinea, on the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Palau Islands and Marshall Islands, on Samoa and in Shanghai - relations of the Oberpostdirektion with shipping companies, railway companies and forwarding agents - postal statistics - postal traffic with overseas countries, also establishment of postal steamship lines - air and rail postal services - radio and radio broadcasting
Explanation: When the North German Confederation was founded, the postal system was organised as a unified state transport authority with the simultaneous disappearance of the territorial postal institutions. Bremen received a federal post office. In 1871, postal sovereignty was transferred to the German Reich. In 1874, the Reichspostverwaltung appointed Bremen as the seat of an Oberpostdirektion, which became the medium Reichspostbehörde. In addition to the territory of Bremen, its area of responsibility included the part of the administrative district of Hanover on the left bank of the Weser, parts of the administrative district of Stade and the administrative district of Thedinghausen in Brunswick. Until the First World War she was also responsible for the postal services in German New Guinea, on the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Palau and Marshall Islands and Samoa. From 1934-1945 the Oberpostdirektion was called Reichspostdirektion Bremen. In 1943 it also took over the district of the Oldenburg management, which had until then been independent, and which included the Weser-Ems district. The privatization of Deutsche Bundespost was initiated in 1989, and in 1990 it was separated into the postal service and telecommunications divisions at OPD. At the end of 1992, the Postal Directorate was divided into the Postal Service and Telecommunications Directorates. Since 1995 they have been part of Deutsche Post AG and Deutsche Telekom AG. Lit.: Christian Piefke, Die Entstehung der Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter aus der Weser-Ems-Gebiet, Vol. 1, H. 1, 1955, S. 2-3; Werner Guddat, 100 Jahre Oberpostdirektion Bremen, Leer 1974; Theodor Windmann, 100 Jahre Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Hefte Weser-Ems, Vol. 1, 1955, S. 2-3. 4, H. 4, 1973, p. 77-84; Johannes Rust, Die Postgeschichte des Bezirks der Reichspostdirektion Bremen für den Kriegsjahre 1939-1945, Bremen 1949; K. Johanns, Die ersten Schritte. Attempt to reconstruct postal conditions in the Reichspostdirektions district of Bremen after the end of the Second World War until the resumption of limited correspondence on 1 July 1945, in: Philatelie und Postgeschichte, 20, No. 89, 1986, p. 1-19; Alexis Wegener, Die Post in Bremen und Bremerhaven 1945-1964, in: Wachsende Städte an der Unterweser, 1965, p. 88-96; Der OPD-Bezirk Bremen, in: Zeitschrift für das Post- u. Fernmeldewesen, 7 (1955), p. 41-53; Oberpostdirektion Bremen (ed.), Oberpostdirektion Bremen im neuen Haus, Bremen 1985; Herbert Leclerc, Von Apia bis Yap. Former German postal institutions in the South Seas, in: Archiv für deutsche Postgeschichte 1982, pp. 7-32; Fritz Thole, Die Leiter der Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter aus dem Weser-Emsgebiet, vol. 1, H. 1, 1955, p. 3, H. 3, 1956, p. 29-38, vol. 2, H. 6, 1961, p. 118-119. Reference: Christian Piefke, Die Entstehung der Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter aus der Weser-Ems-Gebiet, vol. 1, H. 1, 1955, p. 2-3; Werner Guddat, 100 Jahre Oberpostdirektion Bremen, Leer 1974; Theodor Windmann, 100 Jahre Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Hefte Weser-Ems, vol. 4, H. 4, 1973, p. 77-84; Johannes Rust, Die Postgeschichte des Bezirks der Reichspostdirektion Bremen für die Kriegsjahre 1939-1945, Bremen 1949; K. Johanns, Die ersten Schritte. Attempt to reconstruct postal conditions in the Reichspostdirektions district of Bremen after the end of the Second World War until the resumption of limited correspondence on 1 July 1945, in: Philatelie und Postgeschichte, 20, No. 89, 1986, p. 1-19; Alexis Wegener, Die Post in Bremen und Bremerhaven 1945-1964, in: Wachsende Städte an der Unterweser, 1965, p. 88-96; Der OPD-Bezirk Bremen, in: Zeitschrift für das Post- u. Fernmeldewesen, 7 (1955), p. 41-53; Oberpostdirektion Bremen (ed.), Oberpostdirektion Bremen im neuen Haus, Bremen 1985; Herbert Leclerc, Von Apia bis Yap. Former German Post Offices in the South Seas, in: Archiv für deutsche Postgeschichte 1982, pp. 7-32; Fritz Thole, Die Leiter der Oberpostdirektion Bremen, in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter aus dem Weser-Ems-Gebiet, vol. 1, h. 1, 1955, pp. 3, h. 3, 1956, pp. 29-38, vol. 2, h. 6, 1961, pp. 118-119.