Abstract
The nucleus of the German Levantine Cotton Company has developed most probably within the so-called German Colonial Economic Committee. This organization has commissioned before the establishment of the company several reports to find out suitable land for cotton cultivation in Anatolia. These reports and other succeeding documents allow us now for a comparison between the small and large agricultural holdings in the Aegean and Cilicia.
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The company’s name in German is: “Deutsch-Levantinische Baumwollgesellschaft”.
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Kolonial-Wirtschaftliche Komitee.
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The monthly published journal of the German Colonial Economic Committee.
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The second meeting records of the Committee, 2nd June 1902, p 9. It was published as a supplement of the journal “der Tropenpflanzer”.
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He admits in his report that he was in Central Anatolia as the Smyrna assignment was proposed to him but he doesn’t tell why he was there.
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He is commemorated in many species including Abutilon endlicii Ulbr., heterotoma endlichii E. Wimm., and Hosackia endlichii Harms.
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Endlich expresses his gratitude to Fitzner also for sharing his data on Aydın-Railroad cotton transportation.
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Dr. Selig Soskin (Tschurubasch/Kırım 1873- 1959 Tel Aviv).
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This concern was publicized mainly by another influential member of the Committee, an industrialist Karl Supf.
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Dr. WF Bruck has dedicated his book to a famous botanist Ferdinand Wohltmann. F Wohltman, is the co-editor of the journal “Tropenpflanzer”.
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According to the information in the report his visit to Cilicia must have started on 15 October 1904.
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The third editor of the journal was Franz Oppenheimer.
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Soskin does not give a direct conversion rate for Frcs/Ps, but one may infer from his calculations on page 364 that he assumes 33Frcs. as equal to 171Ps.
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Akder, A.H. (2019). Why Did the German Levantine Cotton Company Settle in Cilicia?. In: Yenişehirlioğlu, F., Özveren, E., Selvi Ünlü, T. (eds) Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93662-8_10
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