The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies and territories of Imperial Germany.Unified in the early 1870s, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck.Short-lived attempts at colonization by individual German states had occurred in preceding centuries, but crucial colonial efforts only …

This is a list of former German colonies and protectorates ( German: Schutzgebiete) established by the German Empire, Brandenburg-Prussia and the Habsburg Monarchy . Contents 1 Pre-1871 German Colonies 1.1 Prussia 1.2 Duchy of Courland 1.3 Free City of Augsburg 1.4 County of Hanau 1.5 House of Ascania 2 Habsburg colonies 3 Imperial German colonies

Germany is the first port-of-call in any study of the origins of World War I. Germany before World War I was a nation struggling to assert its place in the world. Its leader, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was an ambitious nationalist cursed with impatience and recklessness. Germany’s economy was one of the fast-growing in the world but its ruling class and ...

German imperial colonies Africa. German East Africa - (Deutsch-Ostafrika) Tanganyika; after World War I a British League of Nations mandate, which in 1962 became independent and in 1964 joined with former British protectorate of the sultanate of Zanzibar to form present-day Tanzania; Ruanda-Urundi: 1885 – 1917 Rwanda (present-day) Burundi (present-day)

Germany before World War I was a nation struggling to assert its place in the world. Its leader, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was an ambitious nationalist cursed with impatience and recklessness. Germany’s economy was one of the fast-growing in the world but its ruling class and society were infected with militarism. Who ran Germany after WW1?

Germany’s overseas colonies, virtually without hope of reinforcement from Europe, defended themselves with varying degrees of success against Allied attack. Togoland was conquered by British forces from the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and by French forces from Dahomey (now Benin) in the first month of the war.

The German Empire, 1871–1914. The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year period Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France were vanquished in short, decisive conflicts. The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist ...

Map of the German Empire in 1914. You can also download a hi-res copy as a pdf (10 mbs). This map shows the boundaries and major cities of the German Empire at the time it entered the First World War in August 1914. Map produced by Geographx with research assistance from Damien Fenton and Caroline Lord.

What happened to the colonies after ww1? Germany’s colonial empire was officially confiscated with the Treaty of Versailles after Germany’s defeat in the war and each colony became a League of Nations mandate under the supervision (but not ownership) of one of the victorious powers. The German colonial empire ceased to exist in 1919.

Germany lost control when World War I began and its colonies were seized by its enemies in the first weeks of the war. However. some military units held out longer: German South-West Africa surrendered in 1915, Kamerun in 1916, and German East Africa only in 1918 by war's end.