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Henning Scherf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (343 words) |
 | Henning Scherf (born 31 October 1938 in Bremen) is a German lawyer and politician. |
 | He is the incumbent Mayor of Bremen and also Bremen's current Senator (Minister) of Law and Constitution. |
 | From 1978 on he has been a member of Bremen Senate (government) in various functions some of which were: Senator for Finances, Senator for Youth and Social Issues, Senator for Health and Sport, Second Mayor, Senator for Education and Sciences and Senator of Law and Constitution. |
| C.A. Heineken (5190 words) |
 | Frequently a mayor made agreements on the matter in question with older councilmen, and younger members were averse to contradict his decision. |
 | Bremen's foreign trade opened up new regions by undertaking voyages of its own to India and China and, as a result of the American War of Independence, to the United States and the West Indies as well. |
 | In 1933 it was deposited along with the bundle of preliminary written material in the State Archives of Bremen, after which it was made generally accessible for genealogical research for several years, and gained a reputation for being the most informative and comprehensive secondary source for research concerning many of the Bremen families listed therein. |