page_title: Consular Agency of the United States, Bremen
section_title: Post-World War II
hierarchical_section_title: Consular Agency of the United States, Bremen / History / Post-World War II
caption_attribution_description: English: Former american consulate general at the President-Kennedy-Platz in Bremen, Germany. Built 1954 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Deutsch: Ehemaliges Amerikanisches Generalkonsulat am President-Kennedy-Platz in Bremen. Erbaut 1954 nach Plänen von Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Das abgebildete Objekt ist ein geschütztes Kulturdenkmal in der Freien Hansestadt Bremen, mit der Nr. 1009 beim Landesamt für Denkmalpflege registriert. → Datenbankeintrag
context_page_description: The Consular Agency of the United States in Bremen, also referred to as Consular Agency Bremen, was one of the American diplomatic missions to Germany. The unit offers limited services for U.S. citizens 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.
  The consular agency closed permanently on December 31, 2018.
context_section_description: The six main consular offices in Germany—Berlin (consulate general), Bremen (consulate), Frankfurt (consulate), Hamburg (consulate general), Munich (consulate general), and Stuttgart (consulate)—reopened in the spring of 1946.
  Martin J. Hillenbrand, who served as consul from 1946–50, described how the Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 stipulated that post-war Germany was "a defeated enemy nation" which was to be industrially disarmed and demilitarized, and that a program of restitution and reparations was to be enforced.  Fraternization with German citizens and officials was also discouraged.  Hillenbrand wrote:
  Reality quickly caught up with abstract formulations of policy.  Nonfraternization could not stand up long in the face of the human propensity for sympathy and affection.  Moreover, the plight of the civil population in the midst of destroyed buildings, food and fuel shortage, and economic collapse so obviously called for help that further punishment seemed irrelevant in what had become a battle for survival...the emphasis inevitably shifted to the provision of minimal supplies to avoid mass starvation.
  Hillenbrand described living well as part of the "occupation establishment", and stated that the consulate had "its own club staffed by expert German cooks and waiters who were glad to be so near good food".  The consular car fleet included a Maybach limousine alleged to have been previously used by a senior Nazi official.
  During the 1960s, American buildings in West Germany became locations for anti-Vietnam War rallies, and in 1967, tomatoes and eggs were thrown at the Bremen consulate. In 1986, the Consulate General was closed after operating for centuries.
  In 2000, American consular presence in Bremen become the Consular Agency, and a Consular Agent acts as the head of mission. At first the office sat on the location of Bremen World Trade Center, then in 2011 it moved into its present address at Flughafenallee 18, right inside the Bremen Airport.
caption: A new consulate was opened in Bremen in 1956 at the President-Kennedy-Platz.  Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,[10] its architecture demonstrated the International Style of post-war Modernism,[11] and was honored with an award from the Association of German Architects in 1974.[12]
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