Wikipedia / List of former German colonies
Wikipedia / 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
Duchy of Courland
Curlander Gambia 1651–1660, 1660–1661
Neu-Kurland (on Tobago) 1642–1650, 1654–1659, 1660–1666
Free City of Augsburg
Klein-Venedig (in Venezuela), 1528–1545
County of Hanau
Hanauish-Indies, Planned in 1669 but later canceled in 1672
House of Ascania
Neu-Askania, 1828–1856
German Empire
Africa
The following were German African protectorates:
Kionga Triangle, 1894–1916
German South West Africa, 1884–1915
German West Africa, 1884–1915
Togoland, 1884–1916
Kamerun, from 1884–1916
Kapitaï and Koba, 1884–1885
Mahinland, March 11, 1885 – October 24, 1885
German East Africa, 1885–1918
Witu Protectorate, 1885–1890
German Somali Coast, 1885–1888
German Congo, 1884–1885
German Katanga, 1886
Gwandu Protectorate, 1895–1897
Gulmu Protectorate, 1895–1897
German South Africa, 1884–1885
China
These treaty ports were German concessions in China, leased to it by the Qing dynasty:
Kiautschou Bay concession, 1898–1914
German concession in Tientsin, 1895–1917
German concession in Hankou, 1895–1917
Chefoo, 1901–1914
Pacific
These were German colonies established in the Pacific:
German New Guinea, 1884–1919
Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914
Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914
German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885–1914
Bougainville Island, 1885–1914
Buka Island, 1885–1914
Choiseul Island, 1885–1900
Shortland Islands, 1885–1900
Santa Isabel Island, 1885–1900
Nauru, 1906–1914
Northern Mariana Islands, 1899–1914
Caroline Islands, 1899–1914
Palau Islands, 1899–1914
Marshall Islands, 1906–1914
German Samoa, 1900–1914
Protectorate of the Marshall Islands, 1885–1906
Nauru, 1888–1914
Nazi Germany
Poland (1939–1945)
Netherlands, 1940–1945
Norway, 1940–1945
Ukraine, 1940–1944
Ostland, 1941–1945
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