Does Germany Need Colonies?

Thesis: Friedrich Fabri, a professor of theology in Germany, mixed patriotism with an evangelical zeal for spreading German culture around the world to affirm Germany's need to create colonies.

• We need to regain ample, rewarding, and reliable sources of employment; we need new and reliable export markets
• We need a well-designed and firmly implemented commercial and labor policy. Any attempt to do so leads to the irrefutable conclusion that Germany needs colonial possessions
• It is not a question of political power, but a question of culture. Germany wants only to fulfill a national, even a moral duty.
• Central Africa is a great opportunity
• It is important to raise understanding about the significance and necessity of colonial possessions and forcefully arouse the will of the people in that direction.
• The German nation has long experience on the oceans, is skilled in industry and commerce, more capable than others in agricultural colonization, and furnished with ample manpower like no other.
• If it is well-planned and powerfully handled, it will have the most beneficial consequences for our economic situation and our national development.
• A new course of national development might ease the bitterness in our recently united Germany.
• A people at the height of their political power can only maintain their position as long as they recognize and prove themselves as the bearers of a cultural mission
• We have become powerful, but if the goal of political power becomes an end in itself, it leads to hardness, even to barbarism, unless it is willing to undertake the inspirational, moral, and economic leadership of the times.
• We should follow the example of British colonization.