Best Place for a German colony in the new world?

If a German state of any sort was interested in colonizing the new world in either north or South America or both
(IE Prussia Austria Saxony hell even Bavaria) Where would be the best place for this country to start?
 
The Danes colonized what would later be the USVI right? Maybe a German colony can go there instead. Seems that by the time a German state would send ships out all the prime New World real estate would be snatched up by Spain/Portugal/France/England/Holland like OTL so they'd have to settle for smaller islands in the Antilles like the Danes did with the USVI.

Unless you have a timeline that totally butterflies away the 1500s as we know it so Germans are the ones sending ships out first instead of Spain/Portugal.
 
Eastern North American; it was largely untouched because well it take a long time before it’s massivley profitable like the Caribbean was.

Just have some German country make a New Sweden or New Netherland like colony early on.

I don’t see it lasting forever but later German immigrants were homesteaders in the United States I don’t see why they couldn’t be one of the first to make settler colonies on the Eastern Sea board.
 
In OTL, Germany tried to buy the Philippines and Cuba in the aftermath of SPAM war. If America is selling, Kaisar Whilhelm II gets a new summer home.
 
If a German state of any sort was interested in colonizing the new world in either north or South America or both
(IE Prussia Austria Saxony hell even Bavaria) Where would be the best place for this country to start?

To have a german colony you need to have a german navy soon enough. And to have a Navy you need sea access (no Bavarian Navy, no Swiss Navy, no Nepalese Navy).

There was no significant german Navy before most of America’s was already under control of a colonial power or an independent American State, except for Patagonia.
 
While Germany had plenty of settlers in the northeast and Texas I think since a lot Germans ended up in Argentina later then that seems like a good place.
 
The Danes colonized what would later be the USVI right? Maybe a German colony can go there instead. Seems that by the time a German state would send ships out all the prime New World real estate would be snatched up by Spain/Portugal/France/England/Holland like OTL so they'd have to settle for smaller islands in the Antilles like the Danes did with the USVI.

Unless you have a timeline that totally butterflies away the 1500s as we know it so Germans are the ones sending ships out first instead of Spain/Portugal.
During the Age of exploration, at least Denmark had a navy. Did an Ge man state have any navy to speak of? Even Austria (HRE) depended on Italian possessions to provide navy and or merchant support. Or am I wrong?
 
During the Age of exploration, at least Denmark had a navy. Did an Ge man state have any navy to speak of? Even Austria (HRE) depended on Italian possessions to provide navy and or merchant support. Or am I wrong?


Maybe if the Hanseatic League had survived longer?
 
If a German state of any sort was interested in colonizing the new world in either north or South America or both
(IE Prussia Austria Saxony hell even Bavaria) Where would be the best place for this country to start?
Must be North America.Northern Europeans just aren’t suited to the Southern Hemisphere like Southern Europeans.

By the way,Bavaria can into sea?
 
Must be North America.Northern Europeans just aren’t suited to the Southern Hemisphere like Southern Europeans.

By the way,Bavaria can into sea?
Southern Chile has a climate similar to Northern Europe, it's just that it's very mountainous and the Spanish would crush any colony down there.
 
A Germany that wins WWI could feasibly get the Danish Virgin Islands (soon to be US Virgin Islands) since the US bought them specifically for the purpose of keeping them out of German hands.
 

Albert.Nik

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Must be North America.Northern Europeans just aren’t suited to the Southern Hemisphere like Southern Europeans.

By the way,Bavaria can into sea?
Are you really,really sure about this? This is a post Industrial world we are talking of where a lot of work would be indoors. Besides,I think there are some cooler places in the South America too. Argentina and Chilé can make excellent colonies for them.
 

Albert.Nik

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I first thought some parts of Southern Africa. But the problem would be any attempts to enslave or something to the natives which would lead to a mass rebellions and problems and hence,complete decolonisation. If they choose to settle without this and stay put with the locals except in any case of defence,they would stand some chance there. But I doubt if the British and Dutch empires would allow for this.
 
Must be North America.Northern Europeans just aren’t suited to the Southern Hemisphere like Southern Europeans.
True, it would be ridiculous if Northern Europeans colonized a large part of the Southern Hemisphere. They would probably call it some made-up name like Australia.
 
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