Gabon–Germany relations
diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Gabonese Republic
Gabon–Germany relations are the bilateral relations between Germany and Gabon. The humanitarian activities of the Alsatian doctor Albert Schweitzer, who founded a jungle hospital in Lambaréné in 1913, formed a good basis for friendly relations at a later date. This was an important factor in the positive image that Germany enjoys in Gabon today.
History
German contacts with Gabon began in the mid-19th century through the activities of German researchers, traders and missionaries. In 1862, the Hamburg-based merchant Carl Woerman opened a branch in what is now Gabon and five years later a German consul was sent to Libreville. In 1873, the ethnologist Adolf Bastian travelled along the coast of Gabon and later published his travelogue in Jena. In the same year, the German Society for the Exploration of Equatorial Africa sent an expedition led by Paul Güßfeldt, who visited the Kingdom of Loango. The following year, the German-Austrian explorer, mineralogist and geologist Oskar Lenz became the first European to conduct geological research in Gabon.
In 1894, the German Empire and France defined their colonial spheres of influence in Africa and established the borders between French Gabon and the German colony of Kamerun. With the Morocco-Congo Treaty of 1911, Germany received the area of Neukamerun from France.
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