Institution

Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen-Gesellschaft

1878 · 19th century · Also known as DHPG

The Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen-Gesellschaft der Südsee-Inseln zu Hamburg (DHPG) was a German trading and plantation company founded in 1878 to take over the Pacific business of the Hamburg firm J. C. Godeffroy & Sohn. It owned large coconut and cocoa plantations in Samoa, worked by labourers recruited from Melanesia and later China, and dominated the islands' economy. New Zealand confiscated its Samoan estates after 1914.

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German Samoa

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen-Gesellschaft. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/deutsche-handels-und-plantagen-gesellschaft
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