German colonial society for South West Africa

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German colonial society for South West Africa
legal form
founding February 1, 1885
resolution 1915
Seat Luderitz
management Johann Albrecht zu Mecklenburg, Braunschweig and Wiligrad

The German Colonial Society for South West Africa (DKGSWA) was a trading and management company in what was then German South West Africa , now Namibia .

The DKGSWA took on 3 April 1885 by Adolf Lüderitz acquired Lüderitz country and its liabilities and rights, including especially the mining rights .

history

Land ownership and mining rights of the DKGSWA 1914 (red hatching)

The company was initiated on February 1, 1885 by the bankers Gerson von Bleichröder and Adolph von Hansemann , the industrialist Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck and the politician Johannes von Miquel . Furthermore, it was Friedrich Hammacher involved in the founding of the organization.

The DKGSWA was formally founded on April 30, 1885 in Lüderitz . Heinrich Ernst Göring , sent from Germany, was the first chairman of the society.

Chancellor Otto von Bismarck initially intended to have the protected areas administered entirely by colonial societies. The DKGSWA was either unwilling or unable to take on this task for German South West Africa. The society was therefore not given any state administrative powers, but only granted economic privileges.

literature

  • Ludwig Sander: History of the German Colonial Society for South West Africa. From its founding until 1910. In two volumes. Reimer, Berlin 1912.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Colonial Society. German Colonial Atlas with Illustrated Yearbook, Berlin 1909. Retrieved on March 17, 2015
  2. ^ German Colonial Society for South West Africa . In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . tape I . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 305 ff . ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b Chronology. Klaus Dierks , accessed December 12, 2014.
  4. ^ Friedrich Hammacher . In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . tape II . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 15 ( online ).
  5. ↑ colonial societies . In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . tape II . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 329 ff . ( online ).