Imperial Colonial Office

Imperial Colonial Office

Reichskolonialamt
Service flag of the Colonial Office
Agency overview
Formed	May 17, 1907 (1907-05-17)
Dissolved	February 20, 1919 (1919-02-20)
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.