German Togo Federation

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The German Togobund was a political organization under the Ewe in the areas of the former German colony Togo after the First World War , in which mainly members of the younger Ewe elite were organized. Most of them were German-educated civil servants from the former colonial administration, who saw their careers endangered with the partition of Togo after the First World War, among other things because of insufficient knowledge of English and French language and law. Most of them came from the most economically developed regions of the former colony and represented the best educated Africans in the Ewe settlement area.

In addition, almost all of the Ewe tribes were united by the state for the first time in their history with the establishment of German colonial rule, while now since the First World War they saw each other again. (Togo had emerged from the war as a divided country after it had been divided into a British and a French mandate of the League of Nations.) This promoted nationalist unity efforts, especially among parts of the Ewe elite, as they might be. a. also manifested in the German Togobund . The primary goal of the German Togo Federation was the political reunification of all Ewe, as well as the restoration of the German colonial administration in both parts of the mandate. This demand was also the subject of a petition addressed to the League of Nations in the early 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression. However, it was unsuccessful, the petition was completely ignored by the then Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations.

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Sources and Notes

  • Leo J. de Haan: Partition of the German Togo colony: economic and political consequences , Canadian Journal of Studies in Nationalism, 15 (1-2) (1988) 33-41
  • Mèhèza Kalibani: History and (after) impact of the German-Togo Federation, Munich, GRIN Verlag, 2017, https://www.grin.com/document/368056
  • Têtêvi G. Tété-Adjalogo: De la colonization allemande au German-Togo Bund , Paris: Ed. L'Harmattan, 1998

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