Colonies in the Pacific and Asia

Volklin · Post by **Volklin** » 17 Jul 2004 22:47

I've been hearing scant clues on what colonies the German empire had in Asia and the Pacific. Africa is mentioned a lot, but not the other side of the world. Tsingtao, a coastal region of China, what about the Pacific islands? Bismarck sea? I've heard that the Germans had the Solomons, Gilberts, Mariannas before the Japanese acquired them.

CoffeeCake · Post by **CoffeeCake** » 18 Jul 2004 00:03

Don't forget NE New Guinea. It was a German colony before WW1, when it was annexed by Australia and administered by them until independence in 1975 under the name Papua New Guinea.

Here is a list of their colonies in their respective places:

Africa

German East Africa
Tanzania (present-day)
Rwanda (present-day)
Burundi (present-day)
German South West Africa
Namibia (present-day)
Cameroons (Kamerun)
Togo

Pacific

German New Guinea
German Solomon Islands
Caroline Islands (Karolinen)
Mariana Islands (Marianen)
Nauru
Marshall Islands
Samoa

China

Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fo ... n_colonies

jaybee · Post by **jaybee** » 13 Aug 2004 07:01

CoffeeCake wrote:Don't forget NE New Guinea. It was a German colony before WW1, when it was annexed by Australia and administered by them until independence in 1975 under the name Papua New Guinea.

Actually, New Guinea was divided by a north-south line which divided the big island into two halves. The western half was taken by Holland@Netherlands. The eastern half belonged to Imperial Germany.

After WW I, the German half was divided into a northern portion and a southern portion.
The north was administered by Britain. The southern portion was administred by Australia.
Later on both of them were rejoined into Papua-New Guinea - PNG.
The western half became Irian Jaya under Indonesia.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fo ... n_colonies

Windward · Post by **Windward** » 18 Aug 2004 02:51

http://www.zum.de/psm/imperialismus/kol ... las12e.php

http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/index.html

yerbamatt · Post by **yerbamatt** » 23 Aug 2004 05:16

CoffeeCake wrote:
Africa

German East Africa
Tanzania (present-day)
Rwanda (present-day)
Burundi (present-day)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fo ... n_colonies

Hi Coffee Cake,

A correction: most of today's Tanzania rather - without Zanzibar and Pemba (both islands were British).

http://www.zum.de/whlmla/region/eastafr ... 61918.html

Regards...

CoffeeCake · Post by **CoffeeCake** » 24 Aug 2004 21:11

yeah, I forgot that the British owned Zanzibar (shortest war in 1896

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knieptang · Post by **knieptang** » 25 Aug 2004 03:40

Nice thread, here the final link, to answer all questions:

Auf den Spuren der deutschen Schutzgebiete:
http://www.jaduland.de/kolonien
(German language)

panzertruppe2001 · Post by **panzertruppe2001** » 03 Sep 2004 19:23

CoffeeCake wrote:Don't forget NE New Guinea. It was a German colony before WW1, when it was annexed by Australia and administered by them until independence in 1975 under the name Papua New Guinea.

Here is a list of their colonies in their respective places:

Africa

German East Africa
Tanzania (present-day)
Rwanda (present-day)
Burundi (present-day)
German South West Africa
Namibia (present-day)
Cameroons (Kamerun)
Togo

Pacific

German New Guinea
German Solomon Islands
Caroline Islands (Karolinen)
Mariana Islands (Marianen)
Nauru
Marshall Islands
Samoa

China

Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fo ... n_colonies

What about Palau Islands? I think Solomon Islands were British colonies. The Admiralty Islands were German Colonies.

Excuse any posible mistake

Panzertruppe2001

Gwynn Compton · Post by **Gwynn Compton** » 05 Sep 2004 13:08

IIRC Germany did possess the Solomon Islands for a while in the 19th Century before doing a deal with Britian and handing control for them over.

Gwynn

panzertruppe2001 · Post by **panzertruppe2001** » 05 Sep 2004 20:20

Gwynn Compton wrote:IIRC Germany did possess the Solomon Islands for a while in the 19th Century before doing a deal with Britian and handing control for them over.

Gwynn

Thanks Gwynn, what information have you about Palau Islands

Windward · Post by **Windward** » 07 Sep 2004 06:51

German Settlement, Tianjin (Tien Tsin)
1902-1917
one of Kaiser's smallest colonies

Windward · Post by **Windward** » 07 Sep 2004 07:00

CoffeeCake wrote:Don't forget NE New Guinea. It was a German colony before WW1, when it was annexed by Australia and administered by them until independence in 1975 under the name Papua New Guinea.

Here is a list of their colonies in their respective places:

Africa

German East Africa
Tanzania (present-day)
Rwanda (present-day)
Burundi (present-day)
German South West Africa
Namibia (present-day)
Cameroons (Kamerun)
Togo

Pacific

German New Guinea
German Solomon Islands
Caroline Islands (Karolinen)
Mariana Islands (Marianen)
Nauru
Marshall Islands
Samoa

China

Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fo ... n_colonies

Didn't French ceded most part of Equatorial Africa Colony (including today's Chad, Central Africa and Gabon) to Germany in 1911 to exchange French priority in Morocco?

Gwynn Compton · Post by **Gwynn Compton** » 09 Sep 2004 09:32

panzertruppe2001 wrote:
Gwynn Compton wrote:IIRC Germany did possess the Solomon Islands for a while in the 19th Century before doing a deal with Britian and handing control for them over.

Gwynn
Thanks Gwynn, what information have you about Palau Islands

Right now, not much at hand, I'm wrapped up nice and warm suffering from the flu, when I get a chance I'm go for a rummage and see what I can find.

Gwynn