| 1879 | born on November 26 in Schlawe (Pomerania) |
| 1900 | begins his studies in electrical engineering in Cöthen (Anhalt) |
| 1908 | executive director of the "Gesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie m.b.H. [The Company for Wireless Telegraphy Ltd.]" (Telefunken) in Berlin #noch ein Foto von Hans Bredow rein. |
| 1919 | head of department and director of the newly-founded Department for Wireless Telegraphy in the Ministry of Posts in the Weimar Republic, central authority for the entire German radio communications in Berlin |
| 1926 | commissioner for Broadcasting in the Ministry of Posts, chairman of the administrative board of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft [Reich Broadcasting Corporation] (R.R.G.), umbrella organisation of broadcasting companies |
| 1933 | Bredow requests for permission to resign on January 30; on Oktober 25 the 15-months-period of his pretrial detention begins |
| 1934 | the show trial by the Nazis against Bredow on November 5 Start for suspected corruption begins: first he was sentenced, then his case was dismissed in March 1938 |
| 1937-1945 | work-ban, retires in 1939, establishes a historical radio archive in Wiesbaden |
| 1945 | district president of Hesse-Nassau in Wiesbaden, May to September |
| 1945-1953 | chairman of the supervisory board of the Buderus'sche Eisenwerke und Edelstahlwerke Röchling-Buderus ; supervisory board member of the Philipp Holzmann-AG |
| 1946 | proposal for restructuring of broadcasting |
| 1947 | memorandum "Draft of a Broadcasting Act" |
| 1949-1951 | chairman of the administrative board of the Hessian Broadcasting Company |
| 1954 | awarded the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1959 | died on January 9 in Wiesbaden |
