German colonies in America

So many of my threat ideas I just get from browsing Wikipedia, and this is another one. I came across a page about the German Colonization of the America's, and how they had attempted to form colonies in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Southern Chile in the 1500's. So, what if these attempts had been more successful, and the Holy Roman Empire had colonies. Would Prussia inherit these colonies? Would the colonies make Germany richer or poorer?
Here is the link.
 
these were'nt actually colonies of the HRE, they were concessions made by the King of Spain to German Colonists.

Its just that for most german states colonisation was too expensive and most economically useful land was already controlled by Spain or some other much larger power. As can be seen with the scottish invovlement with Darien, isolated settlements in central america were unsustainable because their only economic purpose as colonies was to act as bases for conquest and trade in other areas.

Brandenburg had african posts, and had control of the port of charlotte amalie on st Thomas. this is a better prototype than settler colonies as it could actually happen. no german state was large or rich enough to conquer an empire, and i doubt they would try. instead a series of slaving ports in africa and entrepots in america would be a more likely solution
 
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