The Hamburg Colonial Institute (german: Hamburgisches Kolonialinstitut) was a
higher education
Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after comple ...
establishment founded in 1908 by the
City of Hamburg with the support of
Bernhard Dernburg, head of the
Imperial Colonial Office
The Imperial Colonial Office (german: Reichskolonialamt) was a governmental agency of the German Empire tasked with managing Germany's overseas territories. Dissolved after World War I, on 20 February 1919 the Imperial Colonial Ministry (''Reich ...
.
In 1919 he was merged with the
Hamburg Scientific Foundation to create the
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vo ...
.
The institute was established with two main tasks:
# Training civil servants referred to the institute by the Imperial Colonial Office as wellas other people who intend to emigrate to the German protectorates
# The creation of a centre for scientific and economic colonial research
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1908 establishments in Germany