For other uses, see Colonial Office (disambiguation).
Imperial Colonial Office
Reichskolonialamt
Service flag of the Colonial Office
Agency overview
Formed
May 17, 1907 (1907-05-17)
Dissolved
February 20, 1919 (1919-02-20)
Superseding agency
Imperial Colonial Ministry
Jurisdiction
Reich Chancellery
Headquarters
Wilhelmstrasse 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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