Experiencias coloniales alemanas en Venezuela (siglos XVI, XIX y XX): Un despliegue histórico del derecho en una sociedad poscolonial.

How does law interact in colonial contexts with culturally and legally diverse communities? The project seeks to provide some answers to this question based on the observation of three colonial experiences with a German presence that took place in the territory of Venezuela in the 16th, 19th and 20th centuries: 1) the Welser Colony, which resulted from a commercial transaction celebrated in 1528 by King Charles I of Spain with representatives of the Welser house and extended for almost two decades, 2) the Tovar Colony, which was placed on land suitable for cultivation where in 1843 eighty families from Baden were located, and 3) the Turén Colony, considered “the most important modernizing process of Venezuelan agriculture” and whose first settlers were Germans brought by the government in 1950. Despite the differences between these experiences, we will try to see if the contexts in which they arise would be interconnected and related to relevant processes in the legal history of the country. In this sense, it will be considered that each experience occurring in the three periods will be considered as inflexion points in the processes of globalization and creation of global dependency (the 16th century, with the conquest of America, the 19th century, with the independence movements, and the middle of the 19th century, after the Second World War).