Karl Perrot & Co, Deutsche Lindi Handels- und Plantagengesellschaft
Karl Perrot & Co, Deutsche Lindi Handels- und Plantagengesellschaft was a trading company that operated in Germany and German East Africa under various names and legal successors between 1890 and around 1911. The company was based in Wiesbaden and later Koblenz. Successor companies operated from Düsseldorf and Berlin.
Within a few years, the Perrot family restructured their store, which had operated as the "Elsäßer Zeugladen" in Wiesbaden since 1882, into an overseas trading company. On their plantations, which were initially located near Tanga on the north-east coast and later near Lindi on the south-east coast of what is now Tanzania, they experimented with various natural products such as coffee, rubber and sisal hemp, the crops of which they sold via Wiesbaden. Karl Hermann Perrot (*1843) and his son Bernhard (1875-1907) also wrote numerous colonial development publications.
Literature
Perrot, Bernhard: The future of German East Africa. Should German East Africa become a German colony or remain a Hamburg-Indian domain?, Berlin 1908.
Schinzinger, Francesca: The Perrot family: "Economic citizens" in the German colonies. In: Wirtschaftsbürgertum in den deutschen Staaten im 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert. Edited by Möckl, Karl, Munich 1996 [pp. 397-417].