Imperial Colonial Office

Imperial Colonial Office
Reichskolonialamt
	Service flag of the Colonial Office
Agency overview
Formed	May 17, 1907
Dissolved	February 20, 1919
Superseding agency	Imperial Colonial Ministry;
Jurisdiction	Reich Chancellery
Headquarters	Wilhelmstrasse 62; Berlin
Agency executive	Bernhard Dernburg (1907–1910); Friedrich von Lindequist (1910–1911); Wilhelm Solf (1911–1918), Secretaries of State;

The Imperial Colonial Office or Reich Colonial Office (German: Reichskolonialamt) was a governmental agency of the German Empire tasked with managing Germany's overseas territories. Dissolved after World War I, on 20 February 1919 the Reich Colonial Ministry (Reichskolonialministerium) of the German Weimar Republic replaced the Imperial Colonial Office, dealing with settlements and closing-out of affairs of the occupied and lost colonies.

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