German-Spanish Treaty (1899)
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The German-Spanish Treaty of 1899 was a treaty between the German Reich and Spain, where Spain sold the remainder of its Pacific Ocean Islands to Germany.
After its defeat in the Spanish-American War and the Treaty of Paris where it lost the Philippines and Guam to the United States, Spain had only three archipelagos of small islands and atolls left in the Pacific, which had become ungovernable after the loss of the administrative center Manila.
Germany, which was present in German New Guinea since 1884, forced Spain after a show of strength to sell its Pacific territories.
On February 12, 1899 a treaty was signed by which Spain sold the Caroline Islands, the Mariana Islands and Palau for 17 Million Mark to Germany.
With this treaty Spanish Prime Minister Francisco Silvela le Vielleuze definitively put an end to the Spanish East Indies.
