Osmanischer Lloyd

Ottoman Lloyd ( Lloyd French Ottoman ) was a daily newspaper, published from 1908 to 1918 during the Second Ottoman constitutional period in Constantinople Opel in German and French ( since 1930 Istanbul). The first issue was published on 18 November 1908, the last on 7 October 1918.

It was initiated by the Foreign Office and the German Embassy in Constantinople Opel as part of the German Middle East policy and by Deutsche Bank, Bankhaus S. Bleichröder and other German companies ( Krupp et al ) financed.

History of Newspapers

The newspaper had several editors. First editor in chief was from 1908 to 1914, the former deputy editor of the newspaper Voss, E. M. Grunwald. An essential role in the founding of the newspaper played the since 1891 living in Istanbul and well networked in all intellectual and cultural circles of the capital social democratic orientalist, art historian, and journalist Dr. Friedrich Schrader, who was from 1908 to 1917 deputy editor of the paper, and, not least because of his enormous knowledge of the history and present of Istanbul, the otherwise lent literary- intellectual gloss because of its " mediocrity " of contemporaries often criticized sheet, notably through his contributions in the feuilleton, which were in 1917 published in the anthology Konstantin Opel past and present.

The Ottoman Lloyd was supposed to appear on German and Ottoman, but at that time the Ottoman Turkish was still written in Arabic script, so it was agreed that due to the lower production costs on a bilingual German - French edition, with the one next to the German-speaking community of the time wanted to achieve economically dominant in Istanbul francophone Levantine audience.

Editors

  • November 1908-March 1914: EM Grünwald ( liberal, former deputy editor of Vossische newspaper, the editors left to disagreements with the incumbent since 1912 Ambassador Baron Hans von Wangenheim )
  • April 1914 to mid-November 1915, Karl Müller- Poyritz ( Pan-German nationalist, unpopular with the Turks )
  • Mid- November 1915 to May 1916: Schwedler ( experienced news editor, according to protest the Turkish government sold through leaks )
  • June 1916-August 1917: Uebelhör (after a legal dispute with Dr. Friedrich Schrader recalled )
  • September 1917-September 1918: Silbermann (teachers, no journalistic experience)
  • September to 30 November 1918, Wilhelm Feldmann ( journalist, foreign correspondent )

Other employees (selection)

( some employees were at the same time Middle East correspondent of major German and Swiss newspapers )

  • Max Rudolf Kaufmann ( Switzerland ) ( Frankfurter Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
  • Dr. Friedrich Schrader ( Cologne Gazette, Magdeburg newspaper, Forward, The New Times, deputy editor from 1908 to 1917 )
  • Paul Weitz ( Frankfurter Zeitung )

Quotes

" In its attitude towards foreign journalists, I found the Turks as invariably polite. The Judeo- German publisher of newspapers such as the, Ottoman Lloyd ' or, Jeune Turc ' were less polite. When, Mr Greafs 'or, Grafs ' I received some of the spearheads of the non-Turkish followers of the Young Turks, the British critic of intrigue, reaction and - accused Türkophobie and receipt of funds - so all-encompassing word, as it became Bolshevism and Fascism and yet indifferent eindeutschten their names. "

Second Constitutional Era Social democracy Levantines (Latin Christians) Die Neue Zeit
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