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 it was merged with the Hamburg Scientific Foundation to create the University of Hamburg.
The institute was established with two main tasks:[2]
- 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
- ^ Wildenthal, Lora (2008). "Review of Ruppenthal, Jens, Kolonialismus als "Wissenschaft und Technik": Das Hamburgische Kolonialinstitut 1908 bis 1919". H-German (January 2008). H-German, H-Review.
- ^ Gropl, Miriam. "Kolonialwissenschaften". Geschichtsbuch Hamburg (in German). Retrieved 21 February 2022.