Bremische Bürgerschaft

What Bremische Bürgerschaft does

The Bremische Bürgerschaft is the state parliament of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), one of Germany's sixteen federal state legislatures, reconstituted in 1946-1947 after being dissolved by the Nazi regime in 1933. It exercises dual functions as both the Landtag (state parliament) and the Stadtbürgerschaft (city parliament) for the city-state of Bremen, currently operating in its 21st legislative period (21. WP). The institution is led by President Antje Grotheer and Vice President Sahhanim Görgü-Philipp, with an administrative headcount of 112 employees, and is seated in the Haus der Bürgerschaft at Am Markt 20, a heritage-listed building opened in 1966 on Bremen's historic market square.

The parliament operates a citizen-facing digital platform built on TYPO3 CMS that integrates an online petition portal (petition.bremische-buergerschaft.de), live streaming of plenary sessions, a searchable document archive of parliamentary records, and iCalendar (ICS) feeds for committee and plenary meetings. Beyond digital services, the institution runs a visitor services program offering free guided tours (including multilingual and accessibility-oriented options), a political-education program called Bürgerschaft macht Schule with a Jugend im Parliament (Youth in Parliament) initiative, and a cultural program featuring rotating exhibitions, the annual Bremer Fotopreis photography competition, and the Bremer Kunststipendium art scholarship. Active investigation committees cover the State Secretaries transfer (2015-2025) and suspected social fraud in Bremerhaven, while the Enquetekommission Klimaschutzstrategie develops climate protection policy.

The Bremische Bürgerschaft is a publicly funded legislative body whose operations are financed through the state budget of Bremen; it does not generate commercial revenue and all public services, exhibitions, tours, and events are provided free of charge to citizens. Distribution occurs through the main website, social media on Facebook, Instagram, and the federal Mastodon instance, in-person public access at the Haus der Bürgerschaft, the online petition portal, and outreach programs targeting students and youth. Customer segments are the residents of the Land Bremen (primary), students and youth engaged through civic education, and the general public attending exhibitions and events.

Name

Bremische Bürgerschaft

Legal name

Bremische Bürgerschaft

Website

https://bremische-buergerschaft.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1946

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Bremische Bürgerschaft is the state parliament of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany. It serves the residents of Bremen and Bremerhaven through democratic representation, legislative authority, an online petition portal, live plenary streaming, a searchable document archive, visitor tours, and political education programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

State Legislature / Parliamentary Services

NAICS

Legislative Bodies (921120), Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined (92114), Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921)

akta.pro primary industry

State Legislature/Regional Assembly Administration (BPAIABAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

City Clerk/Records, Elections & Civic Engagement (BPAIACAB)

Keywords

• State parliament services
• Legislative representation
• Citizen petition portal
• Public session livestream
• Political education programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Bremen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Bremische Bürgerschaft is the state parliament of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, exercising legislative authority for both state (Land) and city matters. It provides citizens with democratic representation and a suite of public-facing services including online petition submission, live and on-demand streaming of plenary sessions, searchable parliamentary document archives, free guided tours of the Haus der Bürgerschaft, political education programs for schools, and rotating art exhibitions.

Product overview

Bremische Bürgerschaft operates a unified citizen portal offering digital parliamentary services including an online petition system, live session streaming, searchable document archives, and public visitor programs. The main products include the petition portal for citizen submissions, live broadcast of plenary sessions, a comprehensive document search database, visitor tour services with multiple language options, and an exhibition program featuring the Bremer Fotopreis photo competition and Bremer Kunststipendium art scholarship. Calendar feeds in ICS format enable third-party calendar integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Online Petition Portal
• Plenarsitzung LIVE (Plenary Session Live Stream)
• Document Search (Dokumentensuche)
• Besuchsservice (Visitor Tours)
• Bürgerschaft macht Schule (Parliament Goes to School)
• Exhibition Program (Ausstellungen)
• ICS Calendar (Terminplanung)
• Bremer Fotopreis (Bremen Photo Prize)
• Bremer Kunststipendium (Bremen Art Scholarship)

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Deutscher Bundesrat: Federal representation of the 16 German states at the national level, including Bremen. Functions as the upper chamber of the federal legislature and provides the constitutional framework within which the Bremische Bürgerschaft operates.
• Deutscher Bundestag: The federal parliament of Germany, of which all state legislatures are constitutional subordinates. A broader incumbent in the same legislative governance space, offering federal-level analogs of petition systems, plenary live streaming, and visitor programs at national scale.

Direct peers

• Nordrhein-Westfälischer Landtag: Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state. Direct peer in legislative function with mature digital services (petition system, plenary streaming, document archives) and extensive public engagement programs.
• Hamburgische Bürgerschaft: Legislature of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany's other major city-state. The closest functional peer: identical constitutional structure (state and city functions combined), similar citizen petition portal, live streaming, and visitor services, with comparable headcount and budget scale.
• Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus: Parliament of the State of Berlin, the third German city-state legislature. Operates combined Landtag and Stadtbürgerschaft functions with petition portals, plenary live streams, and extensive visitor programs, directly comparable in mandate and digital service delivery model.
• Hessischer Landtag: Parliament of the State of Hesse. Comparable state-level legislature offering petition portals, public plenary access, visitor services, and political education programs, similar in scale and operational structure to the Bremische Bürgerschaft.
• Niedersächsischer Landtag: Parliament of Lower Saxony, geographically adjacent to Bremen. Direct peer in state-level legislative functions with petition portals, public sessions, and civic education; relevant for cross-state cooperation on regional policy issues.
• Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag: Parliament of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. Another northern German state legislature of comparable scale, providing similar citizen engagement infrastructure and operating under the same federal constitutional framework.
• Bayerischer Landtag: Parliament of the Free State of Bavaria, the largest German state parliament by member count. A direct peer in legislative function, committee structure, and citizen engagement programming, though operating at significantly larger scale.
• Landtag Baden-Württemberg: Parliament of Baden-Württemberg. Direct peer in legislative authority, committee operations, and citizen services; offers comparable digital infrastructure including petition submission, live streaming, and visitor programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/bremischebuergerschaft
• Instagraminstagram.com/hbbuergerschaft
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bremische-b%C3%BCrgerschaft

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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