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The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck .
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Late in Bismarck's chancellorship and in spite of his...
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Germany did not attempt to re-mold its colonial subjects in the German image in the way that the French and the British tried to mold their subjects in their image. While the French and the English instituted policies that spread their languages and culture, Germany restricted use of German to a small number of elite colonial subjects. Germany did ...
Germany's defeat in World War Iresulted in the Allied Powers dissolving and re-assigning the empire, mainly at and its subsequent peace at the Paris Peace Conference (1919). In the treaties Japan gained the Carolines and Marianas, France gained Cameroons, Belgium gained small parts of German East Africa, and the United Kingdom gained the remainder,...
This is a list of former German Empire colonies and protectorates (German: Schutzgebiete), the German colonial empire.
America
1. Little Venice (Klein Venedig)(see German colonization of the Americas)
Africa
1. Groß Friedrichsburg (in Ghana), 1683–1718 2. Arguin (in Mauretania), 1685–1721 3. Whydah, in present Togo ca. 1700 (this Brandenburg 'colony' was just a minor point of support, a few dwellings at a site where British and Dutch had theirs too)
America
1. Saint Thomas (Caribbean, now in the United States Virgin Islands), brandenburg Lease territory in the Danish West Indies; 1685–1720 2. Island of Crabs/Krabbeninsel(Caribbean, now in USA), brandenburgische Annexion in the Danish West Indies; 1689–1693 3. Tertholen (Caribbean sea; 1696)
Africa
1. German East Africa - (Deutsch-Ostafrika) 1.1. Tanganyika; after World War I a British League of Nations mandate, which in 1962 became independent and in 1964 joined with former British protectorate of the sultanate of Zanzibar to form present-day Tanzania 1.2. Ruanda-Urundi: 1885 – 1917 1.2.1. Rwanda(present-day) 1.2.2. Burundi(present-day) 1.3. Wituland 1885 – 1890, since in Kenya 1.4. Kionga Triangle, since 1920 (earlier occupied) in Portuguese Mozambique 2. German South West Africa - (D...
Pacific
1. German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea, today Papua-New-Guinea; 1884 – 1914) 1.1. Kaiser-Wilhelmsland 1.2. Bismarck Archipelago (Bismarck-Archipel) 1.3. German Solomon Islands or Northern Solomon Islands (Salomonen or Nördliche Salomon-Inseln, 1885–1899) 1.4. Bougainville (Bougainville-Insel, 1888–1919) 1.5. Nauru(1888–1919) 1.6. German Marshall Islands (Marshallinseln; 1885–1919) 1.7. Mariana Islands (Marianen, 1899–1919) 1.8. Caroline Islands (Karolinen, 1899 – 1919) 1.8.1. Federated State...
China
1. Jiaozhou Bay (1898-1914)
Hanauish Indies (de:Hanauisch Indien)Southern BrazilErnst Thälmann IslandNew Swabia was a part of Antarctica, claimed by Nazi Germany (19 January 1939 - 25 May 1945), but not effectively colonized; the claim was completely abandoned afterwardThe German colonial empire was relatively short-lived and has been overshadowed in the German consciousness by two world wars, followed by partition, the Cold War and more recently by re-unification. In 2005, when the centenary of the mass killings that took place in Namibia, Germans were reminded of their colonial legacy and of parallels which hav...
Boahen, A. Adu (ed.). 1985. Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935, Abridged version. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520067028Friedrichsmeyer, Sara, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop. 1998. The imperialist imagination: German colonialism and its legacy. Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany. Ann Arbor, MI...Smith, Woodruff D. 1974. "The Ideology of German Colonialism, 1840–1906." Journal of Modern History. 46:641–663———. 1978. The German colonial empire. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807813225GERMAN COLONIAL EMPIRE. On the eve of World War I, the German colonial empire consisted of a population of roughly fifteen million people spread over approximately one million square miles of territory. The principal German colonial possessions were its African holdings (German East Africa, Togoland, German Southwest Africa, and Cameroons) and ...
German Empire, historical empire founded on January 18, 1871, in the wake of three short, successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year span, Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France had been vanquished.
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The German colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck. Short-lived attempts at colonization by individual German states had occurred in preceding centuries, but Bismarck resisted pressure to construct a colonial ...
Summary. The German colonial empire lasted a mere thirty years, and is thus one of the most short-lived of all modern ‘colonialisms’. Consequently, it has not occupied centre-stage in most accounts and overviews of German history. The colonial experience was deemed marginal and insignificant, compared both to the long histories of the ...
