Best Place for a German colony in the new world?

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.
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.
The both of you are right,wasn’t thinking about Argentina and Chile.Nonetheless,the point still stands when it comes to distance.
 
Greenland counts right? After the Second Schleswig War the Prussians crushed the Danes so bad they wanted to join Germany but for reason I can’t recall, was rejected in a rather humiliating way.

If they did join, Germany would get Greenland and Iceland, the Faroes, and the Nicobar Islands off India. Getting ahead of ourselves, but that would be a big problem for Britain in the U-Boot scurge.
 
The part where all the white people--read, Spanish-descended--live in Latin America is in the mountains. Mexico City, Bogota, Santiago de Chile, etc aren't exactly sweltering tropical cities. That's why the actual tropical lowlands has more mixed race peoples, blacks, Indians, etc.

Best POD is Henry the Lion's Saxony surviving as a single state. It would dominate the North Sea and have a good route to the Caribbean and the Americas. I'd think striking early there would damage the Spanish enough to take a few nice islands, which could then be used to push into Colombia/Venezuela area (tropical crops, gold, later oil/canal). Other targets could be the Americas--I'd go for the gulf and Mississippi since that has the potential for plantation crops plus links to the fur trade, and later of course has the Midwest/Plains and their farmland, and also a secondary target along the La Plata basin since again, tropical crops, good farmland, good climate. We know the Germans exported millions of settlers eastward throughout the centuries, so they'd clearly have the population for it.
 
The joint 1473 expedition of João Vaz Corte-Real, Hans Pothorst and Didrik Pining would be among the best bets for establishing an early German presence in North America. According to contemporary records they discovered a land named Terra Nova do Bacalhau - New Land of the Codfish in Portugese, often thought to be either one of the islands or a part of the mainland in the area of the Grand Banks. Having the Hansa support a permanent fishing colony there, that later on also becomes a centre for the North American fur trade should make its' survival and future growth sufficiently secure.
 
Prussia did try to buy California from Mexico in the 1840s. Maybe have Prussia get some North Sea ports earlier, and then make attempts at buying it earlier.
 

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Venezuela,Columbia,Peru,Bolivia,Paraguay also have excellent resources for a large settlement. But the thing is,issues with other Colonial powers and the Natives could be an issue.
 
Possibilities

1) Germany buys the Danish Virgin Islands
2) Haiti defaults on debts to Germany/German companies and Germany proceeds to demand territory (Tortuga? Isle a Vache? Gonave?) as recompense
3) The mexican idea to sell California to the Prussians (outlandish, yes) goes through
4) Prussia or a Prussian company purchases the Santo Tomas colony in Guatemala from Belgium.
5) The US-Mexican boundary is set on the Colorado River. The Adelsverein settlers in Texas (between the Colorado and Rio Bravo) later declare independence from Texas and request annexation by Germany/Prussia
6) The Yucatan Republic requests annexation by Prussia or Hanover for some reason or another and this request is accepted.
7) The French offer to cede Cochinchina to Germany OTL is instead an offer to cede Guiana to Germany.
8) Baez was continually trying to get somebody to annex the Dominican Republic. In this scenario, the new German Empire says yes.
 
From the Wiki

Maracaibo

The city was founded three times: the first time was during the Klein-Venedig period (1528–1546), when the Welser bankers of Augsburg received a concession over Venezuela Province from Charles I. of Spain. In August 1529, the German Ambrosius Ehinger made his first expedition to Lake Maracaibo, which was bitterly opposed by the indigenous Coquivacoa. After winning a series of bloody battles, he founded the settlement on 8 September 1529. Ehinger named the settlement New Nuremberg (German: Neu-Nürnberg) and the lake after the valiant chieftain Mara of the Coquivacoa, who had died in the fighting. The city was renamed Maracaibo after the Spanish took possession.[4] The lack of activity in the zone made Nikolaus Federmann evacuate the village in 1535 and move its population to Santa Marta near the then capital of Venezuela Province, Santa Ana de Coro.

Bartholomeus V. Welser lent the Emperor Charles V a great sum of money for which in 1528 he received as security the Province of Venezuela, developing it as Klein-Venedig (little Venice) but in consequence of their rapacious acts the Welsers were deprived of their rule before the Emperor's reign was over. His son, Bartholomeus VI. Welser, explored Venezuela and was executed by local Spanish Governor Juan de Carvajal in 1546.


So PoD, New Nuremberg remains German with the blessing of the Spanish, because reasons of not pissing Charles V off.
 
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.
Yea, but Denmark was neutral during that war, and Germany was not likely to "take it from them" despite US concerns of a German take over.
 
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The Greater West Africa is the result if the POD is very late and the Germans got some sense and trade their other colonies (Togo, Namibia and Tangayika) to create a big, unified and defendable colony.

And in my opinion it has the chance to become a successful settler colony since it has everything that was needed to become and sustain an industrial nation:
• Coal and oil
• High quality iron ores in Gabon (is purer even when compared to Swedish ores)
• Abundant hydroelectric potential in Cameroon
• Has the potential to become world-leading aluminum industry due to large deposit in Cameroon
• Some shiny thingies (diamonds, gold etc.)
• Got some Rare earth elements too
• Cement and other industries for construction (very important and highly profitable)
• Vast agricultural land ( Nigeria, Cameroon and Gabon each has more than 30% arable land. And Rhodesia managed to become "breadbasket of africa" despite having only 20% of arable land)
• Nice place for europeans to settle in the highlands of Cameroon. In mid-20th century, Air conditioning and advancement in medicine will make other places in Greater West Africa safe for settlement .

Yes the Germans would be able to fund and build the place. During this time prestige is important. They did fund the brewery in Tsingtao for no reason afterall. Not to mention there is abundant of low-skilled local workers in the area, all willing to work on swamps.
 
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Greenland counts right? After the Second Schleswig War the Prussians crushed the Danes so bad they wanted to join Germany but for reason I can’t recall, was rejected in a rather humiliating way.

If they did join, Germany would get Greenland and Iceland, the Faroes, and the Nicobar Islands off India. Getting ahead of ourselves, but that would be a big problem for Britain in the U-Boot scurge.

It was the desire of the king who didn't consult parliament first, so even if the germans had accepted it likely wouldn't have happened.
 
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