Bürgermeister-Smidt-Denkmal, Bronze statue in Mitte, Germany

The Bürgermeister-Smidt-Denkmal is an over-life-size bronze standing statue of Johann Smidt on a three-tiered sandstone base with a red marble pedestal, erected in 1888 at Theodor-Heuss-Platz. It was created by the Leipzig professor and sculptor Werner Stein (1855–1930) and cast in the Dresden bronze foundry Pirner & Franz.

Johann Smidt led Bremen as mayor from 1821 to 1857 and founded Bremerhaven in 1827 by acquiring land at the Weser estuary. This monument marks his central role in transforming Bremen into an international trading port.

The monument was unveiled in 1888 on the market square and has stood under Bremen heritage protection since 1978. Bremerhaven also honoured Smidt by renaming the Great Church he inaugurated in 1855 as the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Gedächtniskirche, and in 1864 the Leher Heerstraße became the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße.

The monument stands freely accessible on Theodor-Heuss-Platz in the city center, open to visit at any time. The square has good public transport connections and sits near other points of interest in the area.

The bronze was cast in 1888 by the Dresden foundry Pirner & Franz from a model by Leipzig sculptor Werner Stein (1855–1930), and the monument has been a protected Bremen heritage site since 1978. A second, marble Smidt statue of 1846 by Bremen sculptor Carl Steinhäuser, once in the upper hall of Bremen's town hall, has stood in the town hall's new extension since 1913.