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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Julius Scharlach (born February 12, 1842 in Bodenwerder, died March 18, 1908 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg lawyer, businessman and a prominent figure in the colonial history of Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was a member of the Colonial Council, and founded the Verein f r das Deutschtum im Ausland (VDA). As a lawyer, he defended the dismissed Governor of German East Africa, Carl Peters. As the lawyer of the Dynamit Nobel company, he became acquainted with leading financial circles in the United Kingdom, and with British colonialists, and between 1905 and 1908 he cooperated extensively with Cecil Rhodes, aiming at preventing conflict between Germany and the United Kingdom. Scharlach had substantial business interests in the German colonies, notably in German South West Africa and Cameroon. He founded the Gesellschaft S d-Kamerun, the South West Africa Company and the Otavi Minen- und Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. A river in Brazil was named in his honour by German settlers.

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