Migrants and internees : Germans in Glasgow, 1864-1918. – Durham e-Theses
This following document provides further context of the situation at the time of World War 1 for Germans living in Glasgow and includes the interesting sentence “in 1911 about one hundred thousand or 12.3% of Glasgow’s inhabitants had been born outside Scotland. The migrants in Glasgow in 1911 from outside Scotland came mostly from Ireland, England and Wales, the British Colonies and foreign countries such as Italy and the German, Austrian-Hungarian and Russian Empires, including partitioned Poland and the Baltic countries.” Within Our Gates: A New Perspective on Germans in Glasgow during the First World War | Journal of Scottish Historical Studies (euppublishing.com) and also mentions Paul Rottenburg (Charlotte’s father?), a chemicals merchant , who had come to Glasgow as a 21-year-old in the 1860s. He headed Leisler, Bock & Co. and was Chairman of the Deutscher Verein from 1893 to 1913. He was President of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce in 1896–1897 and a member of the Conservative Club. When he died in 1929 the Glasgow Herald called him a ‘Notable Glasgow Citizen’ and claimed he had been ‘one of the most devoted and loyal of citizens’.  He also joined with 27 naturalised German business leaders visited Lord Provost Dunlop and subsequently sent him a letter to condemn the sinking of the Lusitania, contributed to the fund for the victims of the Lusitania and renew their oath of allegiance to His Majesty the King. However, most retired quietly from public life.