Around 1765 the Bremische Deutsche Gesellschaft [de] started with a work Bremisch-Niedersächsisches Wörterbuch.
In 1818, the Lexikon aller Gelehrten by the cathedral pastor Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund [de] was published as an encyclopaedic collection of biographers.
From 1961 to 1965, the Weser-Kurier published as a book a Kleines Bremer Lexikon from A to Z, which had previously appeared in the newspaper for cutting out.
The one-volume work could not cover all topics in sufficient breadth as a manageable handbook, so many keywords had to be missing.
It contains keywords on history, politics, biographies (of deceased persons only), culture, education, science as well as Bremensien, historical events, associations and media, religion as well as churches and monasteries, economy and traffic, geography such as city and town districts, rivers, lakes, streets, squares, buildings and sights, companies, sports etc.