Astrolabe-Compagnie

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The Astrolabe-Compagnie was a German colonial society in New Guinea ( Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land ), which only existed from 1891 to 1896. It was founded on October 27, 1891 with a capital of 2.4 million marks. It included Hamburg and Bremen investors and other lenders.

The secretary of commerce, Adolph von Hansemann , acted as director , who also ran the New Guinea company , from which the company initially took over some tobacco plantations in Stephansort and Erima . The following year another tobacco plantation was established in Jomba . In 1893 another plantation was added in Maraga and 108,600 pounds of tobacco were exported to Europe. In addition to tobacco cultivation and export, the Astrolabe Company also shipped precious woods and experimented with the cultivation of coconut palms , Liberia coffee and rubber . In 1896 the company operated tobacco and coffee plantations in Stephansort and tobacco plantations in Erima, Jomba and Maraga.

After bad years in 1895 and 1896, the company was merged again with the New Guinea Compagnie in the last year.

The Evangelical Rhenish Mission was also active near the stations of the Astrolabe Compagnie .

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  • Germany and its colonies in 1896, official report on the first German colonial exhibition. Editor of the Working Committee of the German Colonial Exhibition, Berlin 1897, published by Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), DNB 361405782