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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-40047-4 - German Colonialism: A Short History Sebastian Conrad Index More information Index Ademawa (Cameroon), 42 Battle of Waterberg, commemoration ‘African partition of Africa’, 69 of the, 197 Ajayi, J. F. Ade, 65 Bebel, August, 32, 35 Aka people, 139 Becker, Carl, 119 akida (local administrators, German East Belgian Congo, 37, 46, 169 Africa), 75, 102 Bell, Bismarck, 142 Akwa, King (Ngando a Kwa), 45 Belloc, Hilaire, 79 ‘Alabama in Africa’, see Togo: cotton project Bennigsen, Rudolf von, 33 Albers, Hans, 192 Berlin, 189 Alsace-Lorraine, 143 Berlin Colonial Exhibition, 140 Anthropological Institute, Berlin, 132 Berlin Conference, 1 Anthropological Museum, Berlin, 139 Berlin Seminar for Oriental Languages, 129 anthropology, 125, 131, 139 Bezirksamtmänner, see colonial and craniology, 132 administration: district officers anti-colonial movements, 98, 134 Bhabha, Homi, 135 in interwar Berlin, 189 Birrenbach, Kurt, 194 see also anti-imperialism Bismarck, Otto von, 1, 21–3, 176 anti-globalization movement, 196 and the Prussian mental map, 9 anti-imperialism Bismarck und der Imperialismus, 9 activism of the New Left and the 1968 Blackbourn, David, 154 protests, 195–6 Bodelschwingh, Friedrich von, 114, 150 in official East German rhetoric, 196 Boer war, 137 anti-Semitism 20, 29, 151 Boettcher, Viktor, 163 Anzer, Johann Baptist, 121 Bornu, kingdom of, 42 ‘Arab rebellion’, 63 Boxer war, 32, 61, 62, 80–2 Arendt, Hannah, 153, 159 Boxers, 81 Armenian genocide, 171, 172 Brazil, 37, 170, 181 askari (African soldiers), 52, 53, 54, 70, 188 British East India Company, see East Asmis, Rudolf, 78 India Company Association for Germans Abroad, 195 Brody, Louis, 192 Augsburg zoo, 195 Bruck, Felix Friedrich, 28 Auslandsdeutsche, see ‘overseas Germans’ Bülow, Bernhard von, 83, 177 Australia, 181 Bülow, Frieda von, 138 Bund der Bodenreformer, see German Baghdad railway, 170–2 Association for Land Reform Balandier, Georges, 122 Bund Deutscher Mädel, see League of German Bamberger, Ludwig, 33 Girls Barth, Heinrich, 23, 129 Bundeswehr and colonialist tradition, 195 224 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-40047-4 - German Colonialism: A Short History Sebastian Conrad Index More information Index 225 Burton, Richard, 121 colonial administration, 71–5 Burundi, 51, 53 district officers, 72 German colonialism compared, 73 Cameroon, 1, 30, 42–5, 75, 97, 189 German Foreign Office, 72, 198 corporal punishment in, 80 integration of local actors in, see luluai; Heinrich Leist scandal, 32 akida historiography of, 8 Naval Ministry, 58 ivory trade, 44 Reich Colonial Office, 72 land politics in, 67 see also colonial policy limits of German rule in, see Fulbe, Islamic Colonial Blood Protection Act, 193 sultanate of the Colonial Economic Committee, 173 plantation economy, 89 colonial economics remembrance of colonialism in, 198 and finance, 98 Carl Peters (film), 192 and trade, 97 Caroline islands, 54 as argument for colonialism, 27 Celebi, Mohammad Nafi, 189 capital investment, 180 Celtic fringe, 153 in Cameroon, 45 Césaire, Aimé, 133 in German East Africa, 51 Charles V, emperor, 15 in German South-West Africa, 42 Chatterjee, Partha, 78, 105, 134 in Kiaochow, 62 Chile, 37 in New Guinea and Samoa, 58 China in Togo, 47–9, 50 call to administer violence in, 198 colonial ideology, 3, 184 Christian missions in, 81 and modernization, 67, 71, 77 collective memory, 62 and the state, 66 see also Boxer war; Kiaochow concepts of difference in, 101 Christian missions and missionaries, 23–4, see also civilizing mission; Social Darwinism 90, 94 colonial movement in Germany, 15, 17, and colonial promotion in Germany, 31 25, 33 and the poor in Germany, 151 and Carl Peters, 32 as agents of colonial rule, 113–15 see also ‘New Germany’ criticism of, 34 Colonial Museum, Bremen, 140 in China, 81 colonial policy, 37 see also Protestant Mission Society and ‘politics of difference’, see ‘native citizenship policy’; racism and racial concepts German, 151–2 and rule by violence, 80 in eastern Prussia, 158 and use of local traditions, 78 in post-colonial Africa, 200 collaboration with local actors, 30, 38, 42, civilizing mission, 29, 77, 111–17 51, 54–5, 74; see also Fulbe, Islamic and Booker T. Washington, 175 sultanate of the and Christianity, 33 confiscation of land, 38, 45 and the Ottoman empire, 170 contracts of protection, 50 and the poor in Germany, 151 divide and rule, 75, 109; see also Leutwein and Togo cotton project, 176 system criticism of the, 34 exploitation and revolt, 64 see also elevation German colonialism compared, 75 Cixi, Dowager Empress, 84 reform of, 64–5 class, in Germany, 32 scientific, 4, 37, 64, 73, 173 collective memory see also segregation; law: in the German in Africa, 65 colonies in China, 62 Colonial School for Women at in Germany, 10, 54 Rendsburg, 148 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-40047-4 - German Colonialism: A Short History Sebastian Conrad Index More information 226 Index colonialism defining German power in, 13 and academic disciplines, 124–5, 129–31 German–Polish interaction in and German nationalism, 103–4 Prussia, 154 and globalization, 185 ‘serf peoples’, 167 and nationalism, see nationalism; ‘New education Germany’; ‘overseas Germans’ schools in the German colonies, 49, 61, and official German rhetoric on, 196–8 115–17 Belgian, 109 see also labour; ‘educating to work’ British, 75, 78, 79, 105, 180 Egypt, 13, 97 calls for restitution of German colonial elevation, 29, 55, 63, 112–13 territories and the poor in Germany, 150 in the Weimar Republic, 53, 187–8 see also civilizing mission under Nazi rule, 148, 193–4 Engelhardt, August, 149 definition of, 12–14, 153 Epp, Franz Ritter von, 163 Dutch, 117 Erzberger, Matthias, 7 formal and informal, 170–2 Esstorff, Ludwig von, 160 French, 100 ethnographic shows, 139–42, 192, 195 in historiography of Germany, 4 and colonial memory, 188 legacy of, 4–6 ethnography, 121 Congo Conference, 36, 71 eugenics, 131 Cook, James, 54 evolutionism, 184 Crowe, Sir Eyre, 178 Ewe people, 47, 49, 135, 175 culture wars (Kulturkampf ), 33 fa’a Sa-moa (Samoan custom), 78, 121 Daily Herald, 190 Fabian, Johannes, 126, 155 Damaschke, Adolph, 144 Fabri, Friedrich, 25, 128 Damascus, 177 Fanon, Frantz, 133, 160 Dar es Salaam, 73, 101 film, and colonial memory, 188 Dernburg, Bernhard, 64, 128 First World War, 51 Deutsche Bank, 171 and East Africa, 64 Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen-Gesellschaft, the First World War, see First World War see German Trading and Plantations Fischer, Eugen, 131 Company Fischer, Joschka, 197 Deutsche Volkspartei, see German People’s Fodio, Usman Dan, 44 Party Foreign Office, German, see Reich Colonial Deutscher Ostmarkenverein, see German Office Eastern Marches Society Foster, Georg, 54 Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, 6 Foucault, Michel, 11, 80, 124, 131, 134 development aid, 194 Frankfurter Zeitung, 188 developmentalism, 155–6, 170 Frederick III, emperor, 21 Die Linke, 197 Free Conservative Party, 33 Does Germany Need Colonies? 25 Free Corps, 163 Dolchstoßlegende (‘stab in the back’), 187 Freikonservative Partei, see Free Conservative Drang nach Osten (‘thrust to the east’), 165 Party, Dresden, 139 Freikorps, see Free Corps Duala people, 45 Freisinnige, see German Free-Minded Party Duara, Prasenjit, 126 Frenssen, Gustav, 138 Freytag, Gustav, 158 East India Company, 63, 78 Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg, 16 east Prussia, 176 Frobenius, Leo, 131 see also Poland: as a Prussian colony Fulbe, Islamic sultanate of the, 30, eastern Europe, 165–8 68, 75 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-40047-4 - German Colonialism: A Short History Sebastian Conrad Index More information Index 227 Gandhi, Mahatma, 133 historiography of, 8 ‘gaze’ see also Namibia colonizing, 155 German Trading and Plantations imperial, 133 Company, 97 gender Germanin (film), 192 and labour, 95, 96, 175 Germanin (medicine), 138 colonial nationalist femininity, Gesellschaft fu¨r Deutsche Kolonisation, see 119–20, 147; see also Rendsburg, Society for German Colonization Colonial School for Women at; Ghana, 16, 47, 50, 135 Witzenhausen, German Colonial Gleichschaltung (co-ordination of institutions School at under the Nazis), 53 colonialist sexism in eastern Europe and globalization, 12, 172 Africa, 157–9 and colonialism, see colonialism: and patriarchy in the colonies, 103, 146–7 globalization the female in National Socialism, 148 cultural: transfer of knowledge, 183 genocide see also Sonderweg: and global appropriation and colonial policies in Rwanda, 109 of imperial Germany Armenian, 172 economic, 179–80 German Indology and the Holocaust, 20 of German politics, see Weltpolitik the Herero and Nama wars, 160, 161 Globus, 23 geographical societies: as colonial actors, 23 going native, 101, 146 geography, 127–9 Goodyear, Charles, 46 George, Henry, 144 Götzen, Gustav Adolf von, 86 German Association for Land Reform, 145 Gramsci, Antonio, 78, 133 German Centre Party, 32, 33 Great Depression (of nineteenth century), 181 German Citizenship Act of 1913, 151 Great Elector, see Friedrich Wilhelm of German Colonial Society, 26, 89, 104, 192 Brandenburg German Colonization Company, 63 Grimm, Hans, 188 German East Africa, 8, 50–4, 86–7, 109, 122 Gross Friedrichsburg (West African coast), 16 and akida, 75 Grzimek, Bernhard, 195 and Carl Peters, 146 Guha, Ranajit, 77 and Christian missions, 114, 151 and colonial administration, 73 Hagenbeck,