Commercial Detectives | Corporate Detective Agency Bremen, Germany

The Bremen economy has always been closely linked to the Weser River and maritime trade. The first settlements on the city’s territory existed between the 1st and 8th centuries, and the city received the name Bremen around the turn of the 9th/10th century. In 1186 Bremen became a Free Imperial City and joined the Hanseatic League in 1260. Shipping shaped Bremen for centuries. Despite structural change, inland shipping and, above all, the overseas port of Bremerhaven remain important economic and labour market factors today. It is therefore not surprising that Kurtz Corporate Detective Agency Bremen frequently investigates cases of cargo theft or general transport crime: embezzlement by employees, cargo theft by third parties, commercial sale of illegally obtained transported goods, and so on. Although the Werra, Fulda and Aller ports still exist upstream of the city centre due to tourist use of Bremen waters, freight transport in the federal state of Bremen is of course not exclusively by water – a major advantage for our investigators, as surveillance of a suspicious truck driver is easier to manage with less complicated methods than proving cargo crime on ships.

Import and export are significant components of the Bremen economy, which remains strongly industrial. Many medium-sized and all large companies must deal with economic crimes to their detriment, whether by their own employees or by third parties. Court-admissible clarification of these offences is the main task of our corporate detectives in Bremen. We conduct discreet perpetrator investigations, check suspicions through surveillance, undercover operations, covert interviews or thorough official research, and provide our clients with court-admissible investigation reports – all for transparent and very fair detective fees: +49 421 3679 9066.

From Fisheries to Research and Media

The city’s connection to the economic advantages of the Weser is evident in many historical examples: at the beginning of the 17th century, Bremen established the first artificial harbour in Germany, as the Weser often did not have enough water for merchant shipping. The first steamship in Germany also launched in Bremen in 1817, operating for 16 years as a passenger and mail ship along the Weser. In 1827, due to the progressive silting of the Weser, the port city of Bremerhaven was established as an outer harbour on land purchased from Hanoverians. Today, the Bremen economy is more diversified and features, in addition to industry and trade, a colourful media and research landscape, whose problems from a criminalistic perspective lie less in classic property crimes such as theft of physically valuable goods and more in offences concerning intellectual property. Our Bremen detectives investigate cases of data theft, plagiarism and unfair competition, track down product and brand pirates, or observe slacking field staff. No wonder – besides numerous research institutes (including the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research, the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, the Centre for Marine Tropical Ecology, and in Bremerhaven the Alfred Wegener Institute as a partner of the Bremen Helmholtz Association), Bremen also hosts various radio and TV stations, the most well-known being Radio Bremen (rb). There are also joint stations with WDR, NDR and rbb, and correspondence offices of RTL and Sat.1 are located in the city.

Bremen, together with Bremerhaven, was named "City of Science 2005" by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and recognised as a meeting point of science in the "Year of Science" 2009. Seventy-four primary schools, 33 secondary schools, 8 grammar schools, 5 school centres with upper secondary and vocational schools, and 4 universities (University of Bremen, Bremen University of Applied Sciences, University of the Arts, and the private Jacobs University Bremen) attest to the rich educational and research landscape of the Hanseatic city – a structure that must be protected. Particularly in research and technological development, industrial espionage has become a significant threat in recent decades due to digitalisation – one reason why so many small, medium and large companies seek support from our corporate detective agency in Bremen. We assist not only with classic investigative work but also with IT specialists, security professionals and experts in eavesdropping protection, providing our clients with maximum crime detection and prevention: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-bremen.de.

Services Offered by Kurtz Corporate Detective Agency Bremen

Kurtz Detective Agency Bremen offers, among other things, the following corporate investigations:

• Investigations in property offences (theft, embezzlement, burglary)
• Investigations in espionage and sabotage
• Professional employee screening with utmost discretion
• IT forensic investigations | IT security optimisation
• Investigations in suspected unfair competition | anti-competitive practices
• Investigations in patent infringement
• Protection against eavesdropping | optimisation of eavesdropping countermeasures
• Clarification of transport crime
• Securing evidence (e.g., fingerprints)
• Perpetrator identification in recurring property damage