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Friends of the German
Emigration MuseumSince
the completion of 'Bremer Hafen' as the seaport of the Hanseatic City of Bremen in 1830
until the 1960s the city was the place of embarkation for about 7 million European
emigrants who left for the New World. The great majority of them went to the United States
of America. Thus Bremerhaven was not only the place through which most Germans left their
homeland for overseas but at the turn of the century it also became the most important
emigration port on the European Continent. |
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In 1985 the
association Friends of the German Emigration Museum was founded to promote and
support the establishment of a museum which would take into account the great importance
of mass emigration for the development of Bremen and Bremerhaven. The museum would also be
concerned with the European and international character of historical and present day
migration movements. |
| Last morning in Bremerhaven(1866) |
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| In recent years the
association has furthered the idea of Bremerhaven being the site of such a museum by way
of lectures, exhibitions, conferences and publications. In addition international contacts
were established with various institutions (archives, museums, universities etc.) which
research, document and present migrations or offer services in genealogy and cultural
tourism. |