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	Konigsberg : Our Family History Mid 1700's to Mid 1900's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The German colonies were under their protection, and at first this brought in a sense of ease to the situation for the German population.
		German national districts in the Ukraine (1936) During WWII the fate of the Black Sea Germans was determined by the swift occupation of the Black Sea region by Romanian and German troops.
		Germans had lived in various parts of the Russian empire for centuries so perhaps the best way to describe their history is through a description of the migration waves that occurred.
	home.att.net /~w.tomtschik/KDindex.html (9553 words)

	German colonial empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late 19th century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire.
		The German states prior to 1870 had retained separate political structures and goals, and German foreign policy up to and including the age of Otto von Bismarck concentrated on resolving the "German question" in Europe and securing German interests on that same continent.
		Many Germans in the late 19th century viewed colonial acquisitions as a true indication of having achieved nationhood, and the demand for prestigious colonies went hand-in-hand with dreams of a High Seas Fleet, which would become reality and be perceived as a threat by the United Kingdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_colonial_empire (734 words)

	Maps
		The map extends from the northernmost German colonies of Yagodnaya Polyana and Schaffhausen, north of Saratov, to Kamyshin and Pallasovka in the south; from Balanda, Neu-Frank and Krasnyy Yar in the west to Alexanderfeld and Novouzensk in the east.
		The map depicts the German settlements in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast formerly the northern portion of the Province of Ekaterinoslav and includes the German villages in the western portion of the Kharkov Oblast.
		Map of the German settlements in the Stalino Oblast formerly the eastern portion of Ekaterinoslav Province and the western portion of the Don District (Territory of the Don Cossacks) including the German villages in the eastern part of the Kharkov Oblast.
	www.ahsgr.org /maps.htm (2422 words)

	German-Russian Settlement Map
		Despite restrictions, the German population in Kaliningrad is rapidly increasing (from 200 in 1989 to 4,000 in 1993).
		German life and culture in the colonies remained frozen in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
		This is reflected, for instance, in the German dialects spoken by the German-Russians.
	www.rollintl.com /roll/grsettle.htm (6880 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		They chose Texas as the site for their colony, in part because of the favorable publicity surrounding the Ernst-inspired migration and perhaps because Texas was an independent republic where the princes might exercise some political control.
		The Germans were ambitious farmers and artisans who believed their futures were cramped by the social and economic system at home.
		Germans created new ethnic islands as late as the 1920s, but they were peopled from other areas in Texas, particularly the German Belt.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/png2.html (2162 words)

	click on the photos to see larger images At Germanna
		The First Germanna Colony arrived in Virginia in the spring of 1714, and then came up the Rappahannock River to Tappahannock where they disembarked and made their way overland to the place where they would be settled 20 miles west of present day Fredericksburg at a location that would be called Fort Germanna.
		Two German Colonies came to Virginia during the administration of Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood and settled at or near Germanna in 1714 and 1717.
		In 1717, a Second Colony of Germans came to Germanna and were settled across the river from Germanna in the Great Fork.
	www.germanna.org /history.html (5419 words)

	Volga Germans
		A recent edition of the history of the Germans from Russia (begun about seventy years ago and left incomplete at her death in 1963) by Professor Williams concentrates on the Volga Germans, giving scrupulously researched and highly detailed descriptions of conditions in Germany during the 18th century that made emigration so attractive.
		This book traces the history of the Germans on the Volga in the second half of the eighteenth century, and it presents a rich source of archival material, much of which is published for the first time.
		Kukkus, a German Village on the Volga by Betty Engel Muradian.
	www.webbitt.com /volga/books.html (2575 words)

	Former Colonies and other Overseas Territories (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Flag of the Colonial Governors 1898-1919 (Flag of the Governors of German East Africa and Kiaochao / Flagge der Gouverneure für Deutsch-Ostafrika und Kiautschou)
		In Schurdel 1995 there is a short chapter, illustrated with some flags used in the former German colonies.
		A lot of German technical stuff on that can be found for instance in this website, for example the this zipfile with several maps and pictures.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de_colon.html (1415 words)

	German Settlements
		Most little German villages were established from emigrants of the eight mother-colonies, with the exception of the Mennonites villages, which were established by Mennonites from the Molotschna and other areas of the Black Sea.
		The register of colonies showed the amount of inhabitants for the years: 1918 - 28000 persons, 1926 - 30000 persons.Germans from the city were absent.
		In 1918 the German land wasn’t recorded, but the Germans of Crimea had approximate 650,000 Dessjatin, [so] then two-thirds of Crimean land was the property of the Germans.
	www.icehouse.net /debbie/html/german_settlements.html (1577 words)

	German Immigration
		Later the Germans purchased land along the left bank of the Mohawk in New York and established villages such as Mannheim, Oppenheim and Herkimer.
		In November 1887, eight German anarchists were indicted for the Haymarket Bombing, Later, four of these men, August Spies, Adolph Fisher, Louis Lingg and George Engel, were sentenced to death for the crime.
		German music was banned, German editors and orchestra leaders were mobbed, German fried potatoes were swept from the table or renamed.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAEgermany.htm (3334 words)

	German American Corner: German Achievements in America 3
		From the Colonial history of Venezuela we know, that the German explorers, who came to that country in 1528 to 1546, also brought a printing press with them.
		During his regime, which lasted from 1643 to 1654, the colony New Sweden became very successful and thereby aroused the jealousy of the Dutch, who, while Buchau was on a trip to Europe, attacked the colony and annexed it to New Netherland.
		Here he made the acquaintance of Governor Berkeley of Virginia, who sent him to explore the mountains in the western part of the colony, in the hope of finding a passage to the Indian Ocean, which was believed to be just beyond the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains.
	www.germanheritage.com /Publications/cronau/cronau3.html (1083 words)

	Kiautschow, Deutsche Kolonien (German Colonies), Das Deutschland Geschichte Netz, Germany History Network. Germany. ...
		In 1898, the Germans forced a capital of the concession from China and received a ninety-nine year leasehold in Shantung and additional extensive concessions in Shantung Province.
		The colony was under the authority of the German Imperial Navy, not under the jurisdiction of the Reichs-Kolonial-Amt.
		In a practical sense, German colonial rule in China ended with the transport of German soldiers to Japan as prisoners of war.
	www.usgennet.org /de/topic/ddgn/colonies/kiautschou.html (765 words)

	Money from the German Colonies and colonial issues - Historical German Banknotes - old imperial Paper Money
		Many Germans in the late 19th century viewed colonial acquisitions as a true indication of having achieved nationhood, and the demand for prestigious colonies went hand-in-hand with dreams of a strong navy.
		Because Germany was so late to join the race for colonial territories, most of the world had already been carved up by the other European powers; in some regions the trend was already towards decolonisation.
		The victorious Allied Powers dissolved and re-assigned the German impirial possesions in the course of the First World War (1914-1918) and its subsequent peace treaties, such as the Treaty of Versailles.
	www.germannotes.com /colonies.shtml (293 words)

	Books
		Transport of the Volga Germans from Oranienbaum to the Colonies on the Volga 1766-1767.
		They live in a German colony on the steppe of southern Russia, a place settled sixty years earlier by their grandfathers and others who came from a troubled central Europe.
		The map on which the colony is located is in the next-to-last right-hand column, and the specific quadrant is given in the last column.
	www.ahsgr.org /books.htm (7655 words)

	Reich Colonial League (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But it has a remarkable resemblance with the flag of the Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Gesellschaft (German East Africa Company), although I am not sure the canton is red (the photo was in fl and white).
		Under Third Reich laws, Germans in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika were forbidden from taking out British or South African citizenship — they were regarded in Berlin as citizens of the Reich.
		Anyway, the Germans in the 1930s were very serious about getting their colonies back, and had a core of supporters in the ex-colonies whose 'grievances' were continually be exploited by Berlin.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de}rkb.html (680 words)

	The Volga Germans Home Page
		The Volga German colonies were founded during the years 1763 to 1772 by 30,623 colonists primarily from the central region of present day Germany.
		The colonies were located on the unsettled Russian steppe near the banks of the Volga River.
		Today, those born on the Volga and their descendants are scattered in many parts of the world including Canada, the United States, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, as well as those who remain in European Russia, Kazakhstan, and Siberia.
	www.volgagermans.net (110 words)

	The NDSU Libraries: Germans From Russia
		The latter were at first established close to the mother colonies, but as of the 19th Century, they spread to the North Caucasus area, the Urals, Siberia, Kazakhstan and central Asia, and as ever before, strictly segregated along denominational lines.
		Those daughter colonies had practically nothing to do with the eventual residences of German Russians following WW II, during which they were forcibly resettled from the European to the Asiatic part of the Soviet Union.
		Today's Aussiedler, especially the younger ones, don't seem to adhere to that kind of feeling of belonging to a specific group, especially since they did not live together, but were scattered and separated and, in time, increasingly inter-married, or at least related by marriage, with other ethnic people.
	www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu /grhc/info/introduction/3536.html (578 words)

	List of former German colonies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of former German Empire colonies and protectorates (German: Schutzgebiete), the German colonial empire.
		German West Africa -Deutsch-Westafrika - existed as one unit only for two or three years, then split into two colonies due to distances:
		Kamerun; after World War I separated in a British part, Cameroons, and a French Cameroun, which became present Cameroon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_colonies (204 words)

	Volga German Home Page
		During the 1760s, 104 German colonies were founded on the unsettled Russian steppe near the city of Saratov on the Volga River.
		These pioneers shared a rich life based in German culture, language, traditions and religion but influenced by their Russian neighbors and environment.
		Today, those born on the Volga and their descendants are scattered in many parts of the world including Canada, the United States, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa as well as those who remain in European Russia, Kazakhstan, and Siberia.
	www.volgagermans.net /volgagermans (248 words)

	Volga German Colony - MERKEL (Russia) Home Page
		MERKEL was an Evangelical Lutheran German colony founded where the Karamysh river converged with the Makarovka brook in the Don and Volga river basins, on August 28, 1766.
		Merkel Colony History (1766-1941) gives a summary of events for this colony during its history.
		These two volumes represent all that we have learned regarding this colony, and many of its neighboring colonies, except for material in the yet to be published third volume in which your material may be included.
	home.comcast.net /~dm48/merkel/merkel.htm (603 words)

	eBay Store - PhilaStore: German colonies, German offices abroad, German States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		German colonies East Africa issue mint, very rare
		German colonies South West Africa 3 Mark issue mint
		German colonies South West Africa 5 Mark issue mint
	stores.ebay.com /PhilaStore (422 words)

	German American Corner: PASTORIUS, Francis Daniel (1651-1720)
		He was the leader of the 13 Quaker families from Krefeld, who had to leave because of their religious believes.
		As a mayor he took precise record of the German settlement in Germantown.
		Pastorius didn't believe in slavery and started a protest against it on February 18, 1688, which resulted that slavery was outlawed in German religious colonies, even in the south.
	www.germanheritage.com /biographies/mtoz/pastorius.html (230 words)

	TIME.com: German Colonies -- Jun. 23, 1924 -- Page 1
		Clemenceau said there were 20,000,000 Germans too many; and from the economic standpoint he was quite right.
		* The German colonies were distributed in 1919 as follows: German East Africa (Britain); German South West Africa (Britain); Cameroon (Britain and France); Togoland (Britain and France); German New Guinea— comprising Kaiser Wilhelm's land, Bismarck Archipelago, German Solomon Islands, Nauru —(Britain); Marianne Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Island, Pelew Island (Japan).
		All these colonies are mandated by the League of Nations.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,718551,00.html (481 words)

	German Colonies - Molnar's Stamp & Coin, "Arizona's Finest" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		German Colonies - Molnar's Stamp & Coin, "Arizona's Finest"
		Offices in China Offices in Morocco Offices in Turkey Cameroun Caroline German East Africa German New Guinea German South West Africa Kiautschou Mariana Island Marshall Isls New Britain Samoa Togo
		Many other Scott #'s available, please inquire along with your order.
	www.molnarstamp-coin.com /german_col.shtml (479 words)

	Data Rescue/German Colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		List of publications containing climatological data for German colonies
		The publication shown below contains data for former German colonies around the world with some data for other locations appearing occasionally.
		The description under each title shows the dates of coverage of the publication, the parameters you can find in the data, and a list of the volumes that the Library holds with links to the years for which images are available.
	docs.lib.noaa.gov /rescue/data_rescue_german.html (134 words)

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