La Nova Guinea Alemanya () va formar part de l'Imperi Colonial Alemany. Va ser un protectorat des de 1884 fins a 1914 quan el van prendre les forces armades australianes a l'inici de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Constava de la part nord-est de Nova Guinea i diverses illes properes. La part continental de la Nova Guinea Alemanya i les properes illes de l'Arxipèlag de Bismarck i les Illes Solomon del nord actualment formen part de Papua Nova Guinea.
Història Els primers alemanys presents a l'Oceà Pacífic Sud probablement van ser mariners a bord dels vaixells dirigits per Abel Tasman en el seu primer viatge, el capità del vaixell Heemskerck va ser un Holleman (o Holman), nascut a Jever al nordóest d'Alemanya.Gutenberg Australia Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal, edited by J E Heeres (1898), see descriptive note. Els mercaders de la Lliga Hanseàticavan ser els primers a establir-hi factories. Johann Cesar Godeffroy & Sohn d'Hamburg, van tenir la seu central a Samoa des de 1857 i operaven als Mars del Sud, especialment en el mercat de la copra i van portar immigrants alemanys.Townsend, M. E. (1943) "Commercial and Colonial Policies" The Journal of Economic History 3 pp 124–134 at p 125 A finals de la dècada de 1870, una activa minoria de diversos partits alemanys organitzà a Alemanya diverses societats colonials per tal de persuadir Bismarck per embarcar-se en una política colonial.Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, "Domestic Origins of Germany's Colonial Expansion under Bismarck" (1969) Past & Present 42 pp 140–159 at p 144 citing R. V. Pierard, "The German Colonial Society, 1882–1914" (Iowa State University, PhD thesis, 1964); K. Klauss, Die Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft und die deutsche Kolonialpolitik von den Anfangen bis 1895 (Humboldt Universitat, East Berlin, PhD thesis, 1966); F. F. Muller, Deutschland-Zanzibar-Ostafrika. Geschichte einer deutschen Kolonialeroberung (Berlin, 1959). miniatura|Moneda de 20 marcs d'or de 1895 feta per la Companyia de la Nova guinea Alemanya. A la tornada de la seva expedició alemanya al Pacífic de 1879-1882, Otto Finsch allistà un grup interessat en l'expansió colonial alemanya dirigit pel banquer Adolph von Hansemann. Finsch els encoratjà a fundar una colònia a la costa nord-est de Nova Guinea i l'Arxipèlag de Bismarck.P. G. Sack 'Finsch, Otto (1839–1917)' Australian Dictionary of Biography
El 3 de novembre de 1884, sota els auspicis de la Deutsche Neuguinea-Compagnie, la bandera alemanya s'hissà sobre Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, l'Arxipèlag Bismarck i les Illes Solomon alemanyes.
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Enllaços externs Archives of the German Colonial Society (en alemany) Deutsch-Neuguinea
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