The Hamburg Colonial Institute (german: Hamburgisches Kolonialinstitut) was a
higher education establishment founded in 1908 by the
City of Hamburg
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with the support of
Bernhard Dernburg
Bernhard Dernburg (17 July 1865 – 14 October 1937) was a German liberal politician and banker. He served as the secretary for Colonial Affairs and head of the Imperial Colonial Office from May 1907 to 9 June 1910, and as the minister of Finance ...
, head of the
Imperial Colonial Office.
In 1919 he was merged with the
Hamburg Scientific Foundation
The Hamburg Scientific Foundation (german: Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung) was founded in Hamburg in 1907 to support academic research and its dissemination in that city.
Werner von Melle promoted the project from early 1907, raising 3.8 ...
to create the
University of Hamburg.
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