The German West African Company, in German Deutsch-Westafrikanische Gesellschaft / Compagnie, was a German chartered company, founded in 1885. It exploited the two German protectorates in German West Africa (Togo and Cameroon) but did not actually govern them — unlike its counterpart in German East Africa.
History
The German West African Company was established as a chartered company with a headquarters in Hamburg. The company was active in both Kamerun and Togoland. Following years of little profits, the company was absorbed by the German Empire on November 13, 1903.
Kamerun
Main article: KamerunNow modern day Cameroon.
Togo
Main article: TogolandNow modern day Togo and part of Ghana.
See also
Sources and references
- Schnee, Albert Hermann Heinrich (1908). Unsere Kolonien. Quelle & Meyer. pp. 37& 54.
- German Bundesrat (1904). Die deutsche Kolonial-gesetzgebung. E.S. Mittler und sohn. p. 238.
Horst Gründer, Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien, 4th ed. (Paderborn, Ferdinand Schöningh, 2000).
- CRWFlags.com contains its flag
- WorldStatesmen- here Cameroon & Togo
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- German West Africa
- Chartered companies
- Defunct companies of Germany
- Kamerun
- History of Togo
- German companies established in 1885
- Companies disestablished in 1906
- 1885 establishments in Africa
- 1885 establishments in the German colonial empire
- 1903 disestablishments in Africa
- 1903 disestablishments in the German colonial empire