Colonial Authorities (German Empire)
At the time of the German Empire , the colonial authorities administered the German colonies and protected areas .
structure
The highest colonial authority was the Chancellor . Under him, the colonial department of the Foreign Office was responsible for the entire administration of the colonies and protected areas (from 1907 the Reich Colonial Office ). The Colonial Council acted as an advisory council for the highest organs . At the head of the organization in the colonies were governors and on the Marshall Islands a governor . You were Chancellor (to represent and justice ), secretaries and other officials added.
The stations were administered by district officials , some of whom were subordinate to branches . There were also protection troops in German East Africa , Cameroon and German South West Africa , militarily organized police forces and protected area courts based on the model of the consular courts . Its highest instance was the Imperial Court in Leipzig .
The German lease area Kiautschou was administered by the Reichsmarineamt , not like the protected areas by the Foreign Office or the Reichskolonialamt.
Society reserves
Initially, the empire wanted private companies to administer the areas. However, this form of administration only existed for a few years, so that the social protection areas in East Africa and the Pacific were also converted into so-called crown protection areas . The areas of German West Africa , however, were under the direct administration of the colonial authorities from the start.
literature
- Erhard Georg Schippel: The position of the protected area courts in the German administration of justice . Dissertation, 1909, GoogleBooks
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Winfried Speitkamp: German Colonial History. Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-017047-8 , p. 30ff.
