WI - A more ideally located ATL Hanau-India / Hanauisch Indien

Recently stumbled upon this (albeit German language) unrealised colonial project known as Hanau-India / Hanauisch Indien, which in turn led to an old thread.

Apart from Klein-Venedig in OTL (and possibly parts of OTL Dutch Brazil), what other ideally located / profitable parts of South America could the Germans have taken pre-unification?
 
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This is possible. In fact, it did happen in OTL with the Duchy of Courland and Samogitia. These bits of history make love history so much. It was a vassal state of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and had German rulers. This all happened before the end of the Holy Roman Empire and German Unification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couronian_colonization

In addition, the Knights of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta had some colonies for a while. Once again, these bits of history are just so cool!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta#Colonies_in_the_Caribbean
 
Another potential advantage of a German colony roughly in the area of Dutch Brazil would be its proximity to German South West Africa.
 
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To defend their colonies from natives and European rivals, any disunited German states will need a patron (the Polish for Courland, the Spanish for the Klein-Venedig project) or be sufficiently large to project power on their own. That said, I can see a sort of unofficial/non-state colonization unfolding in a similar pattern to Namibia, where German church organizations funded a network of missions that doubled as hubs for merchants from Germany and Africa to meet. Later the German imperial government solidified its claim to the area and the mission-towns became administrative centers. The best place for this would be Patagonia, not Guinea-- Guinea was an area of high competition, and mission-based colonization that eschews state protections works best in areas subject to little inter-European competition, like California and Namibia itself.
 
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