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Germany decided to create a colony in East Africa under the leadership of Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in February 1885. [1] Germany had recently unified in 1871 and the rapid industrialization of their society required a steady stream of raw materials.
German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.
Germany lost control of most of its colonial empire at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, but some German forces held out in German East Africa until the end of the war. After the German defeat in World War I , Germany's colonial empire was officially confiscated as part of the Treaty of Versailles between the Allies and German ...
Togoland (part of German West Africa), Kamerun (another discontiguous part of German West Africa), German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), and; German East Africa (now Tanzania, etc). (The limits of the areas of control may not be perfectly accurate due to the imprecision of the reference maps.)
German colonies in Africa, 1914. The following were German African protectorates: Kionga Triangle, 1894–1916; German South West Africa, 1884–1915; German West Africa, 1884–1915 Togoland, 1884–1916; Kamerun, from 1884–1916; Kapitaï and Koba, 1884–1885; Mahinland, March 11, 1885 – October 24, 1885; German East Africa, 1885–1918
German strategic thinking was that if the region between the colonies of German East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanganyika (Tanzania minus the island of Zanzibar)), German South West Africa (Namibia minus Walvis Bay), and Kamerun (today's Republic of Cameroon) could be annexed, a contiguous entity could be created covering the breadth of the ...
English: Map of German possessions in colonial Africa, German East Africa' highlighted, in 1913. Note : The limits of the areas of control may not be perfectly accurate due to the imprecision of the reference maps.
Local groups in German East Africa resisted German enforced labour and taxation. In the Abushiri revolt , the Germans were almost driven out of the area in 1888. [ 13 ] A decade later the colony seemed conquered, though, "It had been a long-drawn-out struggle and inland administration centres were in reality little more than a series of small ...