German Colonial
History:
Fugger and Welser in South America (1528 - 1546)
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Herzog Jakob von Kurland in Africa and the Caribbean
(1651 - 1737)
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Der Große Kurfürst von Brandenburg in Africa and the
Caribbean (1681 - 1737)
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Die German Schutzgebiete (Colonies) (1886 - 1919)
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Attempts to claim further colonial territories
1669
Earl Friedrich Kasimir von Hanau und Johann Joachim
Becher in South America
Establishment of Hanau-Indien, 30 x 100 km coast line
in present day French Guayana
1682
Der große Kurfürst von Brandenburg (Elector) in India
"Brandenburgisch-Ostindische Handels-Compagnie"
Tranquebar
King Friedrich II (Der Große)
In near East, India, China
1751 "Asiatisch-Chinesische
Handelsgesellschaft"
1753 "Bengalische Kompagnie"
1769 "Levantinische Kompagnie"
1790
Captain Joachim Nettelbeck, slave trader
In South America
Foundation of a Prussian Planters Colony in todays
Surinam
1842
"Verein Deutscher Fürsten, Grafen und Herren
zum Schutze deutscher Auswanderer in Texas",
Mainz
Besiedlung von Texas (USA)
1842
"Deutsche Antipoden-Colonie"
New Zealand
Purchase of Chatman Islands from the "New Zealand
Company"
South-West of New Zealand
German Submarines in the Caribbean (1914)
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