german colonial empire

How would the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty of 1890 be different if Bismarck was still Chancellor of Germany? I read that he hated the out come of the agreements and apparently he said, "We traded trousers for a button". How would the map of Africa change if it would change at all?

Could the Adelsverein and the efforts around it have taken place elsewhere if for some reason Texas was uninterested or unavailable? What might the repercussions be?

the German colonial empire was... lacking, compared to the other European big boys. Both in size and thus prestige and resources, and in profitability. So, I'm curious as to how Prussia, and thus any subsequent germanys, could create a stronger overseas empire prior to unification. The way I...

Base map Could something like this german empire ever be accomplished? The only change to Europe from OTL is that they don't have Alcase-Lorraine, but do have Luxembourg. Africa is obvious with the giant mittleafrika, same with the German Phillippines. Now, there was a situation involving France...

The Holy Roman Empire had a long and turbulent history by the age of exploration, being almost 700 years old by the time of the age of exploration. But it was decentralized, weak, and more of an alliance than an empire. Your challenge is to make the Kingdom of Germany-not the holy Roman empire...

In 1528, the leader of Augsburg loaned the Habsburg Emperor Charles V a large sum of money. The emperor, however, did not have the money to pay back so, instead of giving a cash settlement, he gifted Augsburg the colony of Venezuela (which was renamed Klein-Venedig). Unsurprisingly, they were...

Basically what the title says. A few key differences: WW1 was shorter than OTL, Russia is not communist, it's some kind of far right, Britain stayed out of WW1 because it was not allied with Russia. Now the Brits realized they messed up by letting Germany get big, and they join the Russians and...

Lets say we go with a POD of 1815 can we get South Africa to control all of Southern Africa by 1945? https://i.imgur.com/4yASv5R.gif Basically OTL Union of South Africa plus Zimbabwe/Rhodesia Botswana Lesotho and Swaziland Mozambique south of the Zambezi Bonuses if: Namibia has more Germans...

Looking around the forums I've seen some ideas floating around regarding possible German (Prussian) settlement of the island of Tierra del Fuego (Preußisch-Feuerland). What would be the best time frame for this to take place (my rough guess would be from the 1850's to the 1870's) What would be...

So the germans succesfully take Amiens and after american troops arrive they resist all Allied offensives. The B.E.F. is forced to retreat and loses it's capability as a fighting force for some months. The germans advance, public pressure against a war that seems unwinnable begins mounting un...

I saw a Hearts of Iron Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg mod and notice that Hermann Goring was the head of state of Mittelafrika, the German Empire's semi-independent colony comprising most of Africa. Is this scenario possible? Is it possible that if the First World War won by the Central...

What if instead of going to the United States, the German portion of Samoa was instead given to Britain? What would be needed for this to be plausible? Would Britain unite the Samoas (which leads to a United Independent Samoa after decolonisation) or not? What effect would a United Samoa...