The title may perhaps not sound so interesting. But it was very nice, the weather played and there were not any traces of Africa, but African traces in Hamburg. Speaker was Heiko Moehle, who explained many details of the Hamburg City Hall, led by the Africa House, and other long-established carriers. Similarly, we were appalled at the oldest shop of Tropical equipment that is in close proximity. created 
How much wealth from trade, of course, the slave trade through Africa in Hamburg - it is incredible dimensions. And today - ages later - Hamburg has developed the most popular African city in Germany.
"The history of Afro-Asian migrants in Germany with the cities of Berlin and Hamburg closely. Africans we met in Berlin in the 17th century as Hofdi, musicians and soldiers of the Prussian state. Jancke The Prince of the Gold Coast ( Ghana) visited already in 1684 the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and the famous Wilhelm Amo, also from the Gold Coast, graduated 1729 in Berlin, "On the Rights of the Moors in Africa."
The Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg as the largest port and commercial city in Germany attracted business people from Africa and Asia. Hamburg as the headquarters of the largest shipping company in the world, HAPAG (Hamburg-American Packet joint-stock company, founded in 1847) carried more than their harbor slaves, immigrants and goods in the New and Old World. The diplomats, businessmen and students of Africa and Asia came to the end of the fifties, with vessels of this line to Germany and then one spoke of Hamburg as the "Gateway to the World." Source: AFRICAN AND ASIAN IN HAMBURG by A. Khaliq Kaifi
The next meeting of the historic African exchanges will be revealed on next Friday, 25.09.2009 instead. contact you get on the Hamburg Academy of Mission, Rev. Sabine Förster
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