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A civilian, Matthias Erzberger of the Centre Party, signed the armistice, which took effect November 11, 1918. History of Germany - Germany from 1871 to 1918: 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 ...
German colonial empire. The German colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies and territories of the German Empire. 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 Bismarck resisted ...
German South West Africa, a former German colony (1884–1919) that is now the nation of Namibia, in southwestern Africa. In 1883 Franz Adolf Lüderitz, a merchant from Bremen, Germany, established a trading post in southwest Africa at Angra Pequena, which he renamed Lüderitzbucht. He also acquired.
The German Colonial Empire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Stoler, Ann L. 1989. “Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in Twentieth-century Colonial Cultures.” American Ethnologist 16: 634–660. Walther, Daniel Joseph. 2002. Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Politics and National Identity in ...
In geographical terms, the German colonial empire was focused on Africa, where it acquired its first territories in 1884 and 1885. Germany’s expansion was an integral part of the larger ‘scramble for Africa’ that substituted the ‘informal imperialism’ of control through military influence and economic dominance by that of direct rule.
6. Dez. 2023 · On colonial maps, Lüderitzland appeared, and in August 1884, Germany declared Lüderitzland a protectorate. This marked a crucial step in Germany's ambitions to form a settler colony.
13. Dez. 2023 · When the First World War broke out in 1914, the German Empire was a great colonial power, possessing numerous African and Asian colonies. Initially, Bismark was against the idea of German Colonies but changed his mind due to the supposed importance of colonies for the trade and security of the Empire. A lot of the scramble for Africa and the ...
