List of former German colonies
This is a list of former German colonies owned by states of Germany:
Holy Roman Empire and German Confederation
Brandenburg-Prussia
- Groß Friedrichsburg (in Ghana), 1683–1718
- Arguin (in Mauritania), 1685–1721
- Bénin), c. 1700 (this Brandenburg 'colony' was just a minor point of support, a few dwellings at a site co-inhabited by British and Dutch)
- Saint Thomas. Leased by Brandenburg from the Danish West India Company, 1685–1720.
- Island of Crabs (Krabbeninsel in German) (Caribbean, now US), Brandenburg annexation in the Danish West Indies, 1689–1693
- Tertholen(Caribbean), Occupied in 1696
Duchy of Courland
- "New Courland", (1637, 1642, 1654–1659, 1680–1690)
- Courlander Gambia
- Fort Bayona, 1651-1660
- Fort Jacob, 1651-1660
- Fort Jillifree, 1651-1660
Free City of Augsburg
- Klein-Venedig,1528–1545
County of Hanau
- Hanauish-Indies, Planned in 1669 but later canceled in 1672
House of Ascania
- Neu-Askania, 1828-1856
Habsburg Monarchy
These were colonies of the
Holy Roman Empire of German Nation realm until 1804, German Confederation
from 1815 to 1848 and from 1850 to 1866.
- Banquibazar, 1719-1723
- Cabelon, 1744-1750
- Delagoa Bay, 1777-1781
- Nicobar islands, 1778–1783
German Empire
Africa
The following were German African protectorates:
- German South West Africa, 1884 to 1915
- German West Africa, 1884 to 1915
- Togoland, 1884 to 1916
- Kamerun, from 1884 to 1916
- Kapitaï and Koba, 1884 to 1885
- Mahinland, March 11, 1885 to October 24, 1885
- German East Africa, 1885 to 1918
- Witu Protectorate, 1885 to 1890
- German Somali Coast, 1885 to 1888
- German Congo, 1884 to 1885
- German Katanga, 1886
- Gando Protectorate, 1895 to 1897
- Gulmu Protectorate, 1895 to 1897
- German South Africa, 1884 to 1885
China
These treaty ports were German concessions in China, leased to it by the Qing dynasty:
- Kiautschou Bay concession, 1898 to 1914
- German concession in Tientsin, 1895 to 1917
- German concession in Hankou, 1895 to 1917
- Chefoo, 1901 to 1914
Pacific
These were German colonies established in the Pacific:
- German New Guinea, 1884 to 1919
- Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885 to 1914
- Bismarck Archipelago, 1885 to 1914
- German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885 to 1914
- Bougainville Island, 1885 to 1914
- Buka Island, 1885 to 1914
- Choiseul Island, 1885 to 1900
- Shortland Islands, 1885 to 1900
- Santa Isabel Island, 1885 to 1900
- Nauru, 1906 to 1914
- Northern Mariana Islands, 1899 to 1914
- Caroline Islands, 1899 to 1914
- Palau Islands, 1899 to 1914
- Marshall Islands, 1906 to 1914
- German Samoa, 1900 to 1914
- Protectorate of the Marshall Islands, 1885 to 1906
- Nauru, 1888 to 1906
Nazi Germany
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- Netherlands, 1940 to 1945
- Norway, 1940 to 1945
- Belgium and Northern France, 1944
- Ukraine, 1940 to 1944
- Ostland, 1941 to 1945
See also
- Ernst Thälmann Island
- German colonial projects before 1871
- German colonization of the Americas
- Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty
- Klein-Venedig
- New Swabia
- Postage stamps and postal history of the German colonies
References
External links
- Media related to Former colonies of Germany at Wikimedia Commons
- German colonies (in German)
- WorldStatesmen