Colonial Council
The Kolonialrat was a 1890 to 1907 and from 1911 to 1913 existing, the Imperial Colonial Office of the Foreign Office of the German Empire coordinate as an expert advisory board for colonial affairs authority.
History
Based on an imperial decree of October 10, 1890, Reich Chancellor Caprivi same day the necessary implementing regulations in respect to the Colonial Council. Its members should hereafter be appointed by the Chancellor.
The Kolonialrat should as the interface of political and economic interests of the colonial empire colonial office are at your side. Frequently, described him as a by Parliament, which is why there were debates on a resolution of the Council and over again. The first colonial Director Paul Kayser wanted with the Kolonialrat of public opinion, the management knew nothing of the colonies, to counteract.
The meetings of the Colonial Council found at the invitation of Chancellor in Berlin, initially in meeting rooms of the Reichstag, later in the Great Assembly Hall of the Imperial Colonial Office. At the first meeting was attended by twenty representatives at the invitation Chancellor Caprivi. In case of temporary resolution of the Colonial Council in 1907 the number of members was the double.
In the first sixteen years of its existence a total of 75 meetings were held. 1911-1913 was met twice a year.
Provided with an imperial letter of protection or are in the protected areas through economic enterprises of considerable extent the installation activity in colonial societies were able to bring members from among themselves for the Kolonialrat in the proposal; the rest was appointed the members from the ranks of the experts at the discretion of the Chancellor. The session for which he was appointed respectively, was one year. It was chaired by the head of the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office or the person in charge of his deputy officers of the Colonial Department.
The Kolonialrat had to give its opinion on all matters, which to him by the Colonial Department ( Colonial Office ) have been sent. He was able to take decisions but also through independent motions of its members. The Kolonialrat elected from among its members a standing committee of three persons, who could be interviewed outside the meetings of the General Meeting of the Colonial Department for its opinion. Members of the Colonial Department, and representatives of other authorities were able to attend the meetings in an advisory capacity, if this existed the approval of the Chancellor.
The members of the Colonial Council sided her position as honorary office, but received a Foreign their cash expenses, appropriate remuneration.
Particular importance was attached to the Kolonialrat in the fields of railway construction, plantation agriculture, shipping and Mission beings.
Members of the Colonial Council
Chairman
As head of the Colonial Department of the Foreign Office or the Imperial Colonial Office as Chairman in Kolonialrat represented (in brackets: time the Presidency):
Other members of
As a simple members:
- Franz Hespers, catholic cleric
- Karl Rudolf Jacobi, Protestant representatives, Secretary of the Treasury aD
- Reinhold Kraetke, Secretary of the Post Office, from 1891 in Kolonialrat
- Adolph von Hanse, banker, director of Disconto Society
- August Freiherr von der Heydt, art collector, partner of Bankhaus von der Heydt -Kersten & Sons
- Eugen Langen, industrialist
- Adolph Woermann, shipowners
- Julius scarlet, Attorney at Law
- Georg Schweinfurth, Africa researcher
- Paul Staudinger, explorer of Africa
- William of Oechelhaeuser, representatives of Deutsche Bank
- Johannes von Miquel, representative of the German Colonial Association
- Emil Kirdorf, representative of the Pan-German League
- Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg, representatives of the German Colonial Society
- Karl Schmeisser, geologist
- Victor Valois, retired Vice Admiral