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I have chosen to begin this study with the year 1830, when Bernhard Philippi, the first colonization agent for Chile in Germany, arrived in Chile for the first time, then in the role of an assistant naturalist. Over the next two decades, the scientific reconnaissance of Chile was assimilated to colonialist propagandas and facilitated the inscription of Chilean space as German colonial territory. The settlers’ act of taking possession by moving to their plots in the Colonia de Llanquihue in March of 1853 marks the end point of my discussion. In the host of writings, the events of 1853 figure as both the realization of the colonial dream and, also, its end.