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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 .
- 31,025,468 km² (11,979,000 sq mi)
- Colonial empire
5 de jun. de 2014 · 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 first German factorei was opened in 1868. On 11.7.1884 the colonial rule was established by the conclusion of "protection" treaties with some chiefs, in which they ceded sovereign rights, legislation and administration of their territory against payment and some (later broken) assurances.
- Colonial Polity
- End of The Colonial Empire
- Extent of The Empire
- Welser Colonies
- Brandenburger-Prussian Colonies
- German Imperial Colonies
- Other
- Legacy
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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...
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The German colonial empire and its protectorates in 1914. Germans had dreamed of colonial imperialism since 1848. Although Bismarck had little interest in acquiring overseas possessions, most Germans were enthusiastic, and by 1884 he had acquired German New Guinea.
18 de mar. de 2019 · Kuss analyses the causes and forms of violence perpetrated by the German Empire in three major colonial conflicts: the Boxer War in China (1900–01), the Herero–Nama War in German South West Africa (1904–07/8), and the Maji Maji War in German East Africa (1905–07/8).
