In the mid- to late-19th Century, German missionaries and traders began settling Togo. By 1884, competition among traders in the area had led to conflicts with the natives, so German emissaries, acting at Bismark’s request, settled treaties with several native tribes, establishing a German protectorate over the coastal areas of Togo. The protectorate would expand slightly through an 1885 treaty with the neighboring French which gave Germany control over Klein-Popo.

On 1 March 1890, a post office was opened at Lome, which was then one of the two major towns on the Togo coast.  The seat of government would move to Lome in 1900, resulting in Lome being designated the main supervisory post office in the colony on 15 January 1900.

This post office remained open until the early days of World War I, closing on 6 August 1914.