**Code**: [BREM](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=126206) **Organization**: Übersee-Museum Bremen **Division**: Abteilung Naturkunde **Location**: Bremen, Germany **Total number of specimens**: 400000 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1865 **Taxonomic coverage**: Adventive flora **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, especially northwestern Germany including North Sea Islands, western Mediterranean, and high mountains of Costa Rica **Important collectors**: C. G. Baenitz, W. Bertram, G. Bitter, O. Böckeler, A. Bornmüller, F. G. P. Buchenau, A. C. Callier, A. G. Dietrich, J. Dörfler, P. K. H. Dusén, C. F. Ecklon, H. F. A. von Eggers, H. Farenholtz, W. O. Focke, K. G. Hartwig, J. M. Hildebrandt, H. Klebahn, J. A. Kneucker, K. Koldewey, A. Krause, H. Küsel, O. Leege, E. J. Lemmermann, A. Lüderitz, C. Lürssen, P. von Lützelburg, F. K. Mertens, J. L. C. Noeldeke, K. Ochsenius, C. Osten, H. H. Pfeiffer, G. Rohlfs, A. W. Roth, D. C. Rutenberg, J. H. Sandstede, J. G. Schaffner, H. Schinz, R. von Schlagintweit, J. T. Schmalhausen, G. A. Schweinfurth, W. Siehe, P. E. E. Sintenis, J. Steingröver, G. R. Treviranus, L. C. Treviranus, I. Urban, A. Vigener, P. C. Vogl, C. A. Weber, F. Wirtgen, C. Wright, C. L. P. Zeyher **Notes**: Updated Aug 2019 (contact numbers). During World War II: small parts of BREM destroyed, others safeguarded by other institutions. Solanum collections of G. Bitter taken to GOET; Juncus collection of F. Buchenau in W; Algae of E. Lemmermann partly destroyed, indetermined material in B for examination; Rutenberg's Madagascar types possibly at CSR; most parts of the Lichen collections of Sandstede, W.O. Focke's Rubus collection and General Herbarium returned to BREM. **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2019-08-05 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.