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the conference did confirm the steps required in order for the Powers to recognise each other's territorial claims in West Africa – steps which Nachtigal had followed. Along with a number of claims by other Powers, German claims in West Africa were thus effectively recognised by means of the conference. In parallel with the main conference sessions, discussions were pursued which were intended to avoid possible conflict by tidying up overlapping claims and starting to define borders. Just two months after the Berlin Conference, on 22 April 1885, Germany concluded a treaty with England which established the borders around
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military interest, was beneficial in terms of gaining bargaining power with other governments. His foreign policy goal was to secure an international agreement that would place a check on the extensive ‘informal empire’ that Britain had built up. With French support, he, therefore, convened a conference in Berlin which would place Germany's acquisitions in Africa on an internationally recognised footing and would establish the rules that all powers would follow in future when making territorial claims in the continent.
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A trading company which was active in Kamerun, Togo, Nigeria and Gold Coast used the name "Deutsch-Westafrikanische Handelsgesellschaft" (German West African Trading Company), founded in 1896 and was also involved in the 1904 founding of the "Deutsch-Westafrikanische Bank" (German West African Bank).
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The Berlin Conference (known as the ‘West Africa Conference’ or the ‘Congo Conference’) convened in November 1884, and remained in session until February 1885. The General Act of the conference made no mention of Togo, Kamerun or any specific territory other than the basin of the Congo. Nevertheless,
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to continue to West Africa before proceeding back to Germany, and the West African squadron was finally dissolved in December 1885. After this the Imperial German Navy established the West African Station, covering the maritime area off the coast of West Africa. Warships were assigned to the ports of
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were used as landing craft to bring 307 soldiers ashore at Hickorytown on 20 December. The landing party received word that rioters on the opposite bank had attacked the Jantzen & Thormählen factories and carried off their managers, and they stormed Joss town to try and recover them. The next day
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In October 1884, with Bismarck's support, the syndicate for West Africa was founded, which was intended to take over the internal administration of the West African colonies. However, the companies involved refused to assume this responsibility on their own and instead demanded the establishment of
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as Imperial Commissioner. His mission was to sail right down the Atlantic coast of the continent, to explore and test the existing a German claims in the region, and where possible to establish new ones. Bismarck's plan was to use Nachitigal's treaties to establish German sovereignty over key areas
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As these border agreements proceeded, Germany abandoned certain of its claims in order to consolidate its position in Togoland and Kamerun. Thus on October 24, 1885, Mahinland came under British protection in return for territorial compensation to Germany. On 24 December 1885 Kapitaï and Koba were
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for their activities. At the same time as established German commercial interests in West Africa were seeking government and naval support, the broader social movement in favour of colonisation was gaining ground. The German Colonial Society (“Deutscher Kolonialverein”) was founded on December 6,
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The German colonial enterprise in West Africa was started by Gustav Nachtigal as Imperial Commissioner for West Africa. He started formally the "Schutzgebiete" (literally: "protectorates") in Kamerun, Togo and South-West Africa. This connection is reflected in the first legal decrees which were
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Having staked its claims with Nachtigal and backed them up with naval force by dispatching the West Africa Squadron, Germany needed to secure international recognition of its position in the region. Bismarck believed that the acquisition of colonies, while expensive and of no real economic or
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Later a number of decrees were jointly issued for Kamerun and Togo. Togo was ruled as a separate colony by an Imperial Commissioner (from 1893: "Landeshauptmann") until 1898 who was supervised by a Chief Commissioner ("Oberkomissar") who was at the same time the governor of Kamerun. The first
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The German author Rochus Schmidt titled a chapter "Deutsch-Westafrika" in his book Deutschlands Kolonien. Band 2, Berlin: Verlag des Vereins der Bücherfreunde Schall & Grund, 1898, S. 1–292. (Reprint durch Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1998,
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took up its position as the second gunboat on the West Africa station. After pacification of tribal feuds and unrest in the area under German protection, the West African Squadron was dissolved in July 1885.
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established fortifications and trading posts in the region. After 1720 there was no German presence in West Africa until the middle of the 19th century, when German trading companies including C. Woermann,
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After Nachtigal had completed his mission of establishing German rights in West Africa, there was a need for naval support to reinforce them. On September 30, 1884, Emperor
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were similarly unsuccessful. Ultimately all Germany was able to gain for its efforts in the Niger basin was favourable adjustments to the border between Togoland and
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German government administration. Bismarck's idea of indirect rule in the German "protected areas" had thus failed in West Africa. In 1886, the syndicate dissolved.
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recognised the German claim, the borders of which were never defined. However at the Berlin Conference Bismarck ceded German rights in Nokki to Portugal.
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Reichsgewalt bedeutet Seegewalt. Die Kreuzergeschwader der Kaiserlichen Marine als Instrument der deutschen Kolonial- und Weltpolitik 1885 bis 1901
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jointly done for the posts of the chief officials in these colonies, i.e. governor of Kamerun and the commissioners of Togo and South West Africa
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While the Berlin Conference was largely concerned with the Congo, there was also competition between Germany, France and Britain for rights on the
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cruised up and down the coast, hoisting the German flag in a number of places. Following the arrival of the first Imperial Governor of Kamerun,
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steamed upriver on the rising tide and bombarded the local villages. The landing party returned to their ships on 22 December. The
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issued an order establishing a West African squadron under the command of the Chief of the Staff of the Admiralty, Rear Admiral
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led to concerns among Hamburg merchants that their interests would be threatened, and they began to seek the protection of the
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in West Africa, which would then be governed indirectly, with administration undertaken mainly by a commercial company.
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Trierenberg, Georg: Togo, die Aufrichtung der deutschen Schutzherrschaft und die Erschließung des Landes, Berlin, 1914
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For the courts in charge of Europeans, there was a joint "Appellate Court for the protectorates of Kamerun and Togo" (
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attempted to acquire territories for Germany in the central Niger region. Gruner and his companion
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under German protection. After this Nachtigal began his return journey to Germany but succumbed to
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Deutsche Männer in Afrika - Lexicon der hervorragendsten deutschen Afrika-Forscher, Missionare etc
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On 5 July 1884 Nachtigal signed a treaty with Mlapa III, ruler of Togo (a village known today as
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Areas under German rule in West Africa between 1884 and 1919 were the following (excluding
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and signed treaties placing under German protection the areas which became the colony of
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1885 map showing German interests in West Africa (Kapitaï and Koba appear as ‘Dubrica’)
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travelled the Niger and concluded "treaties of protection" with chiefs of Gwandu and
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asked for views on potential German intervention in West Africa from the senates of
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trading posts and agreements with rulers of a number of coastal villages in modern
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German interest in West Africa dated from the 17th and 18th centuries, when the
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appeared in a few non official publications concerning the two colonies.
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between 1884 and 1919. The term was normally used for the territories of
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Afrikanische Gesellschaft und Afrikafonds, in Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon
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Cartoon of Bismarck dividing Africa at the Berlin Conference, 1885
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In 1894/95 an expedition funded by the Togo Committee and led by
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By the early 1880s German interests in West Africa consisted of:
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Hildebrand, Hans H.; Röhr, Albert; Steinmetz, Hans-Otto (1993).
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and Kapitaï & Koba were disputed between Germany and France.
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Shortly before the squadron arrived, the settlement of chief
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at the bombardment of Hickorytown (Douala), 21 December 1884
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as its first president, and soon had about 15,000 members.
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received orders to sail for East Africa while the gunboat
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The storming of Belltown by a landing party from SMS
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ceded to France in return for compensation in Togo.
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at its permanent station in the river, allowing the
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Index

Flag of German West Africa
Coat of arms of the German Empire of German West Africa
German colonies in Africa in 1913
German colony
Christianity
Indigenous beliefs
Scramble for Africa
Treaty of Versailles
West Africa
German Colonial Empire
Cameroon
Togo

Duchy of Courland
Brandenburg-Prussia
Jantzen & Thormählen
North German Missionary Society
Guinea
Kapitaï and Koba
Friedrich Colin
de
Togo
Baguida
Little Popo
Cameroon
Bimbia
Malimba
Kribi
Duala people
Anglo-French Convention of 1882

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