List of former German colonies

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This is a list of former German Empire colonies and protectorates (German: Schutzgebiete), the German colonial empire.

German imperial colonies

Africa

German East Africa - (Deutsch-Ostafrika)

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
Ruanda-Urundi: 1885 – 1917

Rwanda (present-day)
Burundi (present-day)

Wituland 1885 – 1890, since in Kenya
Kionga Triangle, since 1920 (earlier occupied) in Portuguese Mozambique

German South West Africa - (Deutsch-Südwestafrika)

Namibia (present-day) except then-British Walvis Bay (Walvisbaai)

Botswana - (Südrand des Caprivi-Zipfels)
German West Africa (Deutsch-Westafrika) - existed as one unit only for two or three years, then split into two colonies due to distances:

Kamerun 1884 – 1914 ; after World War I separated in a British part, Cameroons, and a French Cameroun, which became present Cameroon. The British part was later split in half, with one part joining Nigeria and the other Cameroon. (Kamerun, Nigeria-Ostteil, Tschad-Südwestteil, Zentralafrikanische Republik-Westteil, Republik Kongo-Nordostteil, Gabun-Nordteil)
Togoland 1884 – 1914 ; after World War I separated into two parts: a British part (Ghana-Westteil), which joined Ghana, and a French one, which became Togo

Pacific

German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea, today Papua-New-Guinea; 1884 – 1914)

Kaiser-Wilhelmsland
Bismarck Archipelago (Bismarck-Archipel)
German Solomon Islands or Northern Solomon Islands (Salomonen or Nördliche Salomon-Inseln, 1885–1899)
Bougainville (Bougainville-Insel, 1888–1919)
Nauru (1888–1919)
German Marshall Islands (Marshallinseln; 1885–1919)
Mariana Islands (Marianen, 1899–1919)
Caroline Islands (Karolinen, 1899 – 1919)

Federated States of Micronesia (Mikronesien, 1899–1919)
Palau (1899–1919)

German Samoa (German Western Samoa, or Western Samoa; 1899-1919/45)

Samoa (1900-1914)

Asia

The Concession territory of Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou/Kiaochow)

Qingdao (Tsingtau; 1897 – 1914)

The sphere of influence of Shandong Province, China
The sphere of influence of the Huang He valley

Brandenburger-Prussian colonies

Africa

Groß Friedrichsburg (in Ghana), 1683–1718
Arguin (in Mauretania), 1685–1721
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

Little Venice/Klein Venedig
Saint Thomas (Caribbean, now in the United States Virgin Islands), brandenburg Lease territory in the Danish West Indies; 1685–1720)
Island of Crabs/Krabbeninsel (Caribbean, now in USA), brandenburgische Annexion in the Danish West Indies; 1689–1693 )
Tertholen (Caribbean sea; 1696)

Other

Hanauish Indies (Hanauisch Indien)
Southern Brazil
Ernst Thälmann Island
New 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 afterward
German Antarctic stations

Georg von Neumayer station(1981-1993)

Neumayer Station (1993-present)

Filchner station(1982-1999)
Gondwana station (1983-present)
Georg Forster station(1985-present)
Drescher station (1986-present)
Dallmann Laboratory (1994-present)
Kohnen Station (2001-present)

German Arctic stations

Koldewey station, Spitsbergen (1991-present)

See also

Sources and external links

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