Bosporus Germans
As Bosphorus German German in Turkey are called, their families often permanently lived in the metropolis of Istanbul since the first half of the 19th century. Their number in the Bosporus metropolis is now about 25,000.
History
In general, living in Istanbul European immigrants, for example, Italian merchants, as well as the remains of the now largely vanished in the 19th century still a significant proportion of the population of Istanbul deputy forming Christian population ( Greeks, Armenians ) referred to as Levantines ( Leventi ). Some neighborhoods of Istanbul, such as Beyoğlu ( Pera ) are still very influenced by the then popular Art Nouveau architecture.
The first German immigrants arrived in Istanbul as craftsmen and businessmen, later as a consultant to the German military missions to build the Ottoman army, such as Colmar von der Goltz and Liman von Sanders. A critical chronicler of that time was the German journalist Friedrich Schrader, who lived from 1891 to 1918 in Istanbul and worked. In his book " A refugee travel through Ukraine ," he describes the fate of the German community in Istanbul after the defeat of 1918. Nearly all Germans and Austrians were interned and deported by the Allies, an exception were members of the Ottoman court as the court conductor Paul Lange, father of the famous American conductor Hans Lange.
In 1852 the German Hospital in Istanbul was founded in 1868, the German secondary school (now the German School Istanbul, Özel Alman Lisesi ), later the İstanbul Lisesi.
During the period of National Socialism numerous expelled from Germany scientists and artists took refuge in Turkey, including well-known people such as the sculptor Rudolf Belling, the architect Bruno Taut and the composer Paul Hindemith. Estimates are about 1000 people directly affected, plus mitgeflüchtete family members; Austrians counted that were from 1938 forcibly German (or stateless ).
The third wave came in the 1970s, mainly by representatives of German business enterprises, as well as staff in their Turkish partner companies.
Institutions
Even today there is a German community. For a long time existing buildings are the former embassy building and today's General Consulate close to Taksim Square, the park-like former summer residence of the German ambassador in Tarabya on the Bosphorus, the German Hospital and the German school in Istanbul. Furthermore, there are German -speaking Protestant and Catholic churches.
There are two associations of German immigrants: firstly, the older association " Teutonia ". on the other hand "The Bridge " statements of the Goethe Institute in August 2005, according to live in the 10 - to -12 -million city of Istanbul 40,000 German citizens. The other statements of the Institute, according to live more and more German artists in Istanbul. Kemal Derviş, son of a German immigrant and a Turk, has brought it to the Members of Parliament and Minister of Economy in Turkey. The Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute has its headquarters in the building of the German Consulate General at Taksim Square. Located in Istanbul's Cihangir the Orient- Institut Istanbul is the youngest independent research institute in association with Deutsche Humanities Institutes Abroad ( DGIA ).