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, 1901–1914Rotem Kowner: Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, Lanham (MD): Rowman & Littlefield 2017, pp. 103/104. Available here.

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

References

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