Translation Services in Bremen

Companies with partners across the EU and the US can order professional translation services for tenders, contracts, safety manuals, and marketing material. English leads the language list, followed by Dutch, Spanish, and French, and 50+ languages are available for other trade lanes. Our translation agency works remotely with native linguists, so Bremen teams do not need to arrange anything locally.

Private clients in Bremen most often need civil and education records. Birth, marriage, and divorce certificates go to a Standesamt, Bremen's immigration authority, or a notary, while degrees and transcripts go to the University of Bremen, Constructor University, or Hochschule Bremen. The same records can also be prepared for USCIS, a US state registrar, a Spanish Registro Civil, or a Dutch gemeente.

A certified translation from we carry a signed certificate of accuracy and is delivered as a signed PDF, with a paper original by post on request. Courts and some notaries ask instead for a translator sworn before a German regional court. The Landgericht Bremen and the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht are the state's main courts, and the receiving court or office, not the agency, decides which form it will accept.

Shipping and trade documents add another layer: powers of attorney, company extracts, and certificates of origin sometimes need an apostille or a chamber stamp. An apostille is issued by the authority of the country that created the document, and translators never issue it. The Handelskammer Bremen, the chamber of commerce for Bremen and Bremerhaven, is the usual contact for trade documentation on the German side.

Interpreting needs in Bremen follow the same pattern. Port visits, ship inspections, supplier negotiations, and conferences at Messe Bremen call for consecutive or simultaneous interpreters, and hearings at the Amtsgericht Bremen or the Amtsgericht Bremerhaven are a further occasion for court interpreting. Our professional interpreting services also include remote sessions by video, so a Bremen team can brief a partner in Houston or Rotterdam without travel.

Descendants of emigrants researching their family history, a topic the Deutsches Auswandererhaus in Bremerhaven makes tangible, can have old registers and handwritten certificates translated for American or European filings. Marine research at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven and the university institutes in Bremen add academic papers and grant applications to the list.