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Imperial Colonial Office
Reichskolonialamt
Service flag of the Colonial Office
Agency overview
FormedMay 17, 1907 (1907-05-17)
DissolvedFebruary 20, 1919 (1919-02-20)
Superseding agency
  • Imperial Colonial Ministry
JurisdictionReich Chancellery
HeadquartersWilhelmstrasse 62
Berlin
Agency executive
  • Bernhard Dernburg (1907–1910)
    Friedrich von Lindequist (1910–1911)
    Wilhelm Solf (1911–1918), Secretaries of State

The Imperial Colonial Office or Reich 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 Reich Colonial Ministry (Reichskolonialministerium) of the German Weimar Republic replaced the Imperial Colonial Office, dealing with settlements and closing-out of affairs of the occupied and lost colonies.

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