The Hamburg Colonial Institute (German: Hamburgisches Kolonialinstitut) was a higher education establishment founded in 1908 by the City of Hamburg with the support of Bernhard Dernburg, head of the Imperial Colonial Office.[1] In 1919 he was merged with the Hamburg Scientific Foundation to create the University of Hamburg.

The institute was established with two main tasks:[2]

  1. Training civil servants referred to the institute by the Imperial Colonial Office as wellas other people who intend to emigrate to the German protectorates
  2. The creation of a centre for scientific and economic colonial research

References

  1. ^ Wildenthal, Lora (2008). "Review of Ruppenthal, Jens, Kolonialismus als "Wissenschaft und Technik": Das Hamburgische Kolonialinstitut 1908 bis 1919". H-German. H-German, H-Review (January 2008).
  2. ^ Gropl, Miriam. "Kolonialwissenschaften". Geschichtsbuch Hamburg (in German). Retrieved 21 February 2022.
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