List of German colonial ministers
This page lists Colonial Ministers of Imperial Germany. With the loss of Germany's colonies in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the office was abolished. See also lists of incumbents.
Directors of the Colonial Department in the Foreign Secretariat (1890–1907)
- 1890: Friedrich Richard Krauel
- 1890–1896: Paul Kayser
- 1896–1898: Oswald von Richthofen
- 1898–1900: Gerhard von Buchka
- 1900–1905: Oscar Wilhelm Stübel
- 1905–1906: Prince Ernst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- 1906–1907: Bernhard Dernburg
State Secretaries for the Colonies (1907–1918)
- 1907–1910: Bernhard Dernburg
- 1910–1911: Friedrich von Lindequist
- 1911–1918: Wilhelm Solf
Ministers for the Colonies (1918–1919)
- 1918: Wilhelm Solf
- 1918–1919: Philipp Scheidemann
- 1919: Johannes Bell
