List of former German colonies
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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 St. Andrew's Island Juffure Banjul Island
- 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
- German Peking Legation, 1900–1917
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
- Belgium and Northern France, 1944
- Ukraine, 1940–1944
- Ostland, 1941–1945
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
- Reichskommissariat
External links
- Media related to Former colonies of Germany at Wikimedia Commons
- (in German)