AHC: German Colonies in North America

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Have a German nation (united HRE, united Germany, Austria, etc) have multiple colonies on North American soil. Bonus points if they weren't taken in a war and survive to become a nation in their own right.
 
Henry the Lion's Saxony survives, leading to a North German focused HRE. Colonies are established across North America with no real opposition. Internal warfare in the Holy Roman Empire often leads to thousands of Germans fleeing to the New World.
 
There’s always the overdone idea of the Prussians buying California from Mexico, but that is incredibly ASB, so I’ll skip that one. An interesting idea that I’ve seen in a map on Deviantart (forget who, sorry) and have been considering is a Spanish succession crisis ending in some of the Hapsburg domains in the new world being taken over by Austria, maybe Austrian Mexico, Louisiana, La Plata, whatever.
 

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Suppose the personal union of UK and Hanover ends in the mid to late 18th century. Any chance Hanover gets to keep a colony as a parting gift?
 

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I like the Brandenburg Hudson Bay Company, if Grossiliers and radisson work with the Brandenburgers instead of English.

It will be a lightly populated trade outpost for a long time but if it survives into 19th century it could become a base for expansion of Prussian America to Oregon Country, which has much greater settlement colony potential.

Hudson Bay is remote enough there is more of a chance it won’t be taken in later inhtercolonial wars, a risk that is greater for more centrally located colonies.
 
In OTL Prussia owned several of the islands in the Virgin Islands (in both modern-day US and British) in the late 1600s and early 1700s, if Prussia could be more successful with their small islands than the Dutch, French, and British were with their smaller islands, we could see Prussia able to buy more of the islands that drain the resources of the other European nations; but will never get big ones like Guadeloupe or Martinique for instance, although- Sweden received Guadeloupe from the Napoleonic wars and returned it to France in return for quite a big amount of money, we could see it given at the peace treaty to Prussia instead or Sweden sold it to Prussia for more money. With enough of a mass of small island colonies, it is possible that Prussia preempts Napoleon's selling Louisiana and gets Nappy to sell it to them instead in return for supporting him, or in one of the times when they oppose Nappy they may try to seize it (especially in a seizing scenario we may see the US take St Louis and then buy everything north of OTL Louisiana and let the Prussians have New Orleans and OTL Louisiana). In this scenario we could see the Monroe Doctrine harder to enforce and Prussia may seize weakly defended portions of weak nations (most likely Texas) and maybe interfere to help places like Yucatan stay independent as a protectorate. Prussia/Germany may even be the one to build the Panama Canal or one in Nicaragua.
 
How about OTL Pennsylvania?
IMHO the OP is talking about nation-state sponsored colonization with sovereignty over the land colonized. The Pennsylvania Dutch don't count, neither the German "colonies" in upstate NY, Missouri, or Texas, and even Colonia Tovar in Venezuela. Even Klein-Venedig I would argue may not fit the OP unless some tweeks made to make it more "nationally" owned.
 
How do you define "multiple colonies"? Physically separated? Why is this a condition? Isn't one big colony better than two smaller ones? It's just a matter of administration - would you count the proto-US as 13 colonies or just one?

Anyway: In my Chaos TL, the German state of Braunschweig gets a small colony in OTL Pennsylvania. Thanks to some wars, a personal union with Denmark and especially the fact that this place didn't have any obvious riches (sugar, tobacco, GOLD) so nobody else wanted to take it... long story short, at the end the whole northern half of the US was speaking German.
 
German Louisiana was a huge possibly because there is something called the German coast which is in Louisiana which was inhabited by Germans as early as 1811 before it became a US state in April 30, 1812. Louisiana could of been German if the German immigrants colonized for Germany.
 
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