Did Jewish Zionists Kill Rudolf Diesel ?

[abduLMaria]

Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the Diesel engine, actually designed the engine to run on Plant-derived fuels - not fossil fuels.

Diesel died on a boat trip from Germany to England

"In the evening of 29 September 1913, Diesel boarded the post office steamer Dresden in Antwerp on his way to a meeting of the Consolidated Diesel Manufacturing company in London. He took dinner on board the ship and then retired to his cabin at about 10 p.m., leaving word for him to be called the next morning at 6:15 a.m. He was never seen alive again. Ten days later, the crew of the Dutch boat "Coertsen" came upon the corpse of a man floating in the sea. The body was in such an advanced state of decomposition that they did not bring it aboard. Instead, the crew retrieved personal items (pill case, wallet, pocket knife, eyeglass case) from the clothing of the dead man, and returned the body to the sea. On 13 October these items were identified by Rudolf's son, Eugen Diesel, as belonging to his father. "

from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel

i believe Diesel was murdered.  he was the Thomas Edison of his culture, he did not have financial problems, and he also had major reasons to be happy - he had a family which he could afford to support, and his life-work was massively popular.  for an engineer, that is the biggest rush of all - that your harebrained idea is actually USEFUL - and profitable.   i.e., Diesel had none of the conventional reasons typically associated with suicide.

he also had an engineer's attention to detail, making the accident explanation less likely.  he "just fell off the boat" ?!  i don't buy it.

therefore, we are left with the question - who had the motivation to murder Diesel & who had the track record to make them suspects ?

Jewish Zionists.  Considerable petroleum reserves had already been discovered in the Mid-East, but in order for them to be valuable, they needed to become essential to industry.  had Diesel continued developing engines that ran on vegetable oil (oils of soybean, peanuts, etc.), those fossil fuel reserves would have been much valuable.

historically, it has been recorded that the Jewish Zionists said, essentially, "hey, we could make a lot of money off those mineral resources in the Mid-East" - early in the 20th Century.

by killing Diesel and promoting the development of fossil-fuel based Diesel technology, the Zionists were able to concoct a hugely profitable arrangement for themselves.  an arrangement which haunts our world to this Thanksgiving Day in 2009.

imagine a world that functioned without Mid-East oil.  that is the direction Diesel was going with his technology.  i think the Zionists didn't like his vision and so they whacked him.

i can't prove it.  one place to look would be the history of Diesel technology - to find out who funded the development of Diesel technology after his death, who paid money to direct the research towards a reliance on fossil fuels instead of plant biodiesels.

since petroleum-derived diesel is now so widespread, some TIU readers may not be familiar with biodiesel, or it may sound like some New Age fantasy.  it is very real, there are lots of Mercedes diesel owners who have modified their cars to run on bio-diesel.  the one "biodiesel conference" i went to had about 7 different development teams presenting their technologies.  one company that is distributing biodiesel for transportation fuel uses is Yokayo.

http://www.ybiofuels.org/

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I'd say "yes"... Rothschild had a lockup on Khazakstan Oil supplies at that time.  R. Diesel could have disrupted the nascent oil industry...

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Baku Baron Days
Foreign Investment in Azerbaijan's Oil
by Mir Yusif Mir-Babayev

The dramatic development of the oil business on the Absheron Peninsula during the late 19th and early 20th centuries made Baku the main industrial center in the Caucasus. This growth of oil production in Baku was based upon high quality crude oil, cheap available manpower, and the unusually quick and effective development and implementation of technical improvements.

In 1898, the Azerbaijani oil industry exceeded the U.S. oil production level. At that time, approximately 8 million tons were being produced. In 1901, Baku produced more than half of the world's oil (11 million tons), and 95 percent of all Russian oil. Approximately 1.2 million tons of Baku kerosene were also sold abroad.

The main oil-producing regions were located near Baku at Sabunchi, Surakhani and Bibi-Heybat. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Sabunchi region was producing 35 percent of Baku's oil, and the Bibi-Heybat region produced 28 percent, followed by the Ramani and the Balakhani regions.

Blowouts made up the main portion of all oil production in the early days although this was a very uneconomical and environmentally harmful process. However, blowout production decreased as the equipment was improved. In 1887 blowouts accounted for 42 percent of the recovered oil, but in 1890 it had decreased to 10.5 percent.

Photos: Currency notes and bond notes of the Oil Baron period and early Soviet period. Note, for example the numerous languages and scripts in which they were printed, such as Russian, Azeri in Cyrillic and sometimes Arabic script.

The foreign capital inflow to Baku increased toward the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries (Nobels, Rothschilds, Vishau and others). Naturally, the increased capital led to a significant increase in oil production, and the rapid growth of industries supplying services to the oilfield and oil-refining sectors, such as the building of new ports and electric power stations.

At that time, Baku ranked third in the Russian Empire after St. Petersburg and Moscow in relation to electric power plant output. Five percent of the electricity being produced was used for lighting and 95 percent was being used by industrial enterprises.

In order to provide services to the expanding oil fields, the following joint stock companies were established: the Caspian Engineering and Boiler Plant, the engineering shops of the Brothers Nobel, S.M. Shibayev & Co., Caucasus & Mercury, Caspian Engineering Plant & Ironworks, Nadezhda Association, Orient Warehouses Association, Dadashev's Dockyard and various others. More than half of the engineering plants that appeared were used primarily for repairing ships as sea was the primary means of oil transportation.

During the last quarter of the 20th century, the Czarist government encouraged the foreign investment in the oil industry as agreed upon in a government resolution adopted on May 1, 1880 at a Special Meeting devoted to the admittance of foreigners to oil fields within the Baku region.

Prince M. Golitsyn, the Caucasus Governor-General, at the time wrote, "The situation in the Caucasus is unique. Without participation of Russian capitalists, it is difficult to solve. The lack of free capital, the limited industrial infrastructure, the low level of agriculture, the lack of technical knowledge and weak business initiative of the resident population are long term obstacles to the economic growth of the region. Under such circumstances, the participation of foreigners in the economy in the Caucasus should not be rejected. In addition, the prohibition on purchasing real estate could lead to a stoppage of foreign capital inflow, and to unavoidable damage to its economic interests." The Russian Ministers of Finance Sergey Vitte and V. Kokovtsov also supported the involvement of foreign capital in the Caucasus.

Around 1901, foreign capital took a leading position in the production and sale of Russian oil products. British companies were very active; they invested about 60 million golden rubles in Baku oil business from 1898 to 1903 (though they had already shown interest in Baku oil business much earlier). This was a considerable sum for that day.

The British
The director of an English-Russian trade company, I. Hunway, visited Baku with the aim of conducting his own study to find out the condition of the Baku oil sources in 1741. In 1762, he published a book, "Historical Studies of English Trade on the Caspian Sea", which included a detailed description regarding the Baku oil business. Specifically, Hunway wrote that Baku's residence had been using gas for boiling water, cooking and burning lime, for quite some time.

Having visited Baku in 1784, another English traveler G. Foster wrote that the people in Baku used thick black oil to cover the roofs of their houses to protect against leaks.

In 1884, Secretary of the London Oil Association Boverton, is quoted at a meeting of the Chemical Industry Society, as saying, "Baku's oil sources are so extensive that the Russians could supply the whole world with kerosene and oil." [Mining Journal, 1885, v.1, p. 349].

In 1885, the British magazine, Engineering, published a major article summarizing the growth of the Baku oil industry from 1864. It stated: "Within two or three years Russia will be able to gain control over the markets in Northern Europe. In the near future, Baku will be a strong competitor of the U.S. in countries bordering the Black and Mediterranean seas, not to mention, the Far East and India" [Trade Sheet, 1886, 22nd February].

Charles Marvin a British traveler and writer reached a similar conclusion about the competitive activity between the two countries. Marvin wrote "Baku is the Oil of Europe" and "Region of Eternal Fire: The Petroleum Region of the Caspian", a book which was published three times, the latest being in 1891.

Left: One million rubles. Early Soviet period (1922). Russian and Azeri in Arabic script.

Having studied the extent of the oil pools of the Caucasus, Marvin wrote in his leaflet "The Future Flow of Russian Oil" that sooner or later America would yield its leadership to Russia. Marvin also mentioned that the Russian oil business was too attractive for England to allow it to slip out of its hands.

In order to make deeper inroads into the Baku oil business, he advised implementation of the construction of the Baku-Batumi (Georgia) Oil Pipeline. Construction began in 1897 and was completed exactly 10 years later.

Many engineers, scientists and businessmen were staunch supporters of the rapid construction of the Baku-Batumi Oil Pipeline, including Dmitry Mendeleyev, Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Alfonse Rothschild, the Nobel Brothers, I.P. Ilimov, S.I. Baghirov and others.

As a patriot of his country, Marvin believed that the Russian oil pipeline, together with all necessary equipment, machinery, pumps, reservoirs and other facilities, would fall into German or Belgian hands [Mining Magazine, 1887, V1].

The British company John Russell & Co. sent representatives to the Caucasus twice in 1886. Stuart, a representative of the London Chamber of Commerce, and Peekock, the English Vice Consul in Batumi, were present at the Third Session of the Baku oil-producers held in March-April 1886. In his report, Stuart came out against the purchase of kerosene plants by the English. He believed that Great Britain should focus their main attention on trading in oil products.

Nevertheless, the oil fields of S.M. Shibayev, located in Ramani (a district outside of Baku), which were purchased by James Vishau in 1890, yielded 1 million rubles of net profit a year.

Taghiyev
English businessmen bought Taghiyev's fields for 5 million rubles in 1897. In two and a half years, they had earned more than 7.5 million rubles in net profit.

In 1904, Baku kerosene supplied 47 percent of the needs of Britain, and 71 percent of the needs of France. It should be mentioned that Taghiyev sold his oil companies in order to diversify into other industries of the Azerbaijani economy. Meanwhile, he amassed shares in the Oleum Company established on the basis of these enterprises to the amount of 16 million rubles. This allowed him to continue accumulating capital created in the oil sector. During this period, Taghiyev invested significant sums into the textile, food, construction and shipbuilding industries, as well as in fishery. Later, in 1890, Taghiyev bought the Caspian Steamship Company, renovating it, and then creating a fleet of 10 steamboats.

Taghiyev's company (1872-1897) was a diversified business. His largest oil companies were fourth in terms of oil output, preceded by the Brothers Nobel and the Caspian Partnership. In 1885, his company produced some 7 million poods of oil and 2 million poods of kerosene. [Note: pood is a Russian unit of weight equivalent to about 36.11 pounds.]

Naghiyev and Asadullayev
The companies owned by Musa Naghiyev and Shamsi Asadullayev were the largest Baku oil producers. Established in Baku respectively in 1887 and 1893, they produced between 7-12 million poods of oil annually. These companies owned oil fields, oil distilleries and oil tankers.

Musa Naghiyev's company had fixed capital at 10 million rubles in 1907. Between 1904 and 1910, it ranked as the 6th or 7th largest oil company in Russia. Both companies owned by Naghiyev and Asadullayev held 10 votes in the Council of the Baku Oil Producers, which provides evidence in itself as to the importance of these companies. The largest oil company in Russia, The Nobel Brothers, held 18 votes in this Council in 1914.

Council of Oil Producers
The first session of the Baku Oil Producers was called in 1884 and it continued for 34 sessions. The Council provided the basis for these sessions. The representatives of the largest joint stock companies were elected as the Council's members. The main goals of the Council included (1) protection of the oil-producers' interests in government bodies, (2) provision of high profits to the oil magnates, and (3) the establishment of opposition to the labor movement. The Council was headed by Ludwig Nobel who was the older brother of Alfred Nobel who went on to establish the Nobel Prize. He held this position until 1888.

The Council issued the Oil Business Magazine (published in Baku from 1898-1920). It was one of the first periodicals in Russian about the Russian oil business. Since May 1920 when the Bolsheviks took power in Baku until the present day, the Azerbaijan Oil Business magazine has been published.

John D. Rockerfeller
The increasing interest of John D. Rockefeller's syndicate to export Baku oil products resulted in intense competition on the Absheron oil market. This incited foreign entrepreneurs, who had earlier put down roots in the local market, to struggle actively for the leadership.

The Standard Oil syndicate sent petroleum geologists to the Shamakhi region of Azerbaijan in 1898. Having surveyed the region, they came to the conclusion about the viability of the commercial oil reserves. In 1902, John D. Rockefeller, was so eager to get involved with oil fields in the Caucasus that he was prepared to turn down a profitable deal that the Japanese were offering in preference to the Caucasus.

The idea to purchase Baku's oil fields in association with banks in St. Petersburg with a production output of nearly a third of all Russian's oil production was included in Standard Oil's project for participation in the Russian oil business (1903). This project was never realized, but Rockefeller continued to suggest other projects [See Oil Business, November 5, 1903].

As of January 1, 1916, the four main companies, which led the Baku oil industry included the Nobel Brothers; Russian General Corporation Oil; Transnational Trust Royal Dutch Shell, and the financial oil corporation Neft [See the Review of the Baku Oil Industry for 1915, Baku, v. 2, 1916, pp. 235-331].

Nobel Brothers
The Nobel Brothers Petroleum Company was an oil-producing company established in St. Petersburg in 1879. The primary owners were Ludwig, Robert and Alfred Nobel. On April 10, 1902, the company signed a contract for the purchase of oil fields in Romany, which were owned by the oil producer Isabey Hajinsky. On October 17, 1905, in accordance with the Committee of Ministers, the company purchased the oil fields owned by oil producer A. Adamov. The company's fixed capital in 1914-1917 was 30 million rubles. By 1916, it was the largest oil company in Russia, producing 76 million poods of oil. The Russian General Corporation Oil, established in London in 1912 by the most important Russian and foreign banks, united 20 companies.

These included A.I. Mantashev & Co., G.M. Lianosov & Sons, Moscow-Caucasus Trade Company, Caspian Partnership, Russian Petroleum Society, Absheron Petroleum Society and others. The fixed capital in oil in 1914 was 23 million rubles. By 1917 it had increased to 125 million rubles under the management of the Russian-Asian Bank. Russian oil production in 1914 was distributed among Oil (28%), Shell (20%), and the Nobel Brothers (14%). These monopolies produced 62 percent of the world's oil, and two thirds of its kerosene and black oil.

Shell
Shell was established on October 18, 1897 by Marcus Samuel Jr. Ranked one of the largest British oil companies in Baku, it owned 30 ocean-going ships, and more than 340 oil terminals located between Baku to Shanghai. Altogether, up to the beginning of the 20th century, British oil producers took on the management of more than 11 percent of the Baku oil fields. Unlike in the Russian oil industry, where the Nobel Brothers were the main competitor to Shell, on the world scene this part was played by the U.S. syndicate Standard Oil. Shell always competed with the latter for a monopoly on the world market. Baku oil products were dominant among the goods sold by the company.

In 1907, with the aim of uniting efforts in competition with the U.S. syndicate, two large companies, Shell and Royal Dutch, merged into the transnational trust Royal Dutch Shell, headed by Henry Deterding. At that time 60 percent of the company's shares were owned by Royal, while 40 percent were owned by Shell.

The trust united the following companies: the Caspian Black Sea Society, Caucasus, S.M. Shibayev, and Souchastniki. Oil companies in the trust produced a fifth of Russian output up to 1914. Royal Dutch Shell's output from the Baku oil fields was 57 million poods in 1914.

The Royal Dutch trust had its own pipelines, a large number of refineries, oil tankers with a total capacity of 1.6 million tons and a diversified trade network. The capital stock of the trust amounted to more than 2.5 billion rubles. Deterding was called "The Napoleon of Oil" by his contemporaries. Oil production by the trust was 15.5 million tons in 1926.

A member of the trust, the Caspian Black Sea Society, established in 1883 by A. Rothschild, was the main exporter of oil products. This company sold 36 percent of total exports, compared with the Nobel Brothers, which sold 18 percent. The remaining exports were distributed among other exporters.

The Review of Factories and Plants of the Transcaucasian Region contains a list of foreign kerosene and lubricating oils supplied by Rothschild's Caspian-Black Sea Society. It includes Great Britain, France, Austria, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Malta, Danube principalities, Japan, China, Algeria, Indochina and the Philippines. Altogether, the Rothschilds exported 27,600 poods of kerosene from
Baku through Batumi.

The financial oil corporation Neft (established in St. Petersburg in 1883) was a Russian company involved in the production, transportation, storage and trading of oil products. Its fixed capital in 1916 was 33 million rubles, and it was managed by the Russian-Asian and the Petrograd Discount and Loan Bank. The corporation owned oil fields, kerosene and chemical plants in Baku, and united the companies Baku Petroleum Society, Neft, Balakhani-Zabrat Society and others.

Foreign Investment
The total amount of foreign currency invested in the Baku oil industry up to 1917 averaged 111 million rubles; 60 percent of oil production in Russia was managed by foreign companies, while 75 percent of the trade in oil products was under the management of foreign companies.

According to several documents, until 1920 foreigners, including businessmen from Great Britain, France, the USA, Sweden and Germany, made about 70 percent of the investment in the Baku oil industry.

During World War I, the capitalist system was characterized by the predominance of monopoly cartels formed of the largest entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the more raw material sources and markets united into one monopoly union, the more stable such a union would be. After World War I, the relationships that had been established between the Russian monopolies, especially Baku's and the oil monopolies in Europe and the U.S. were first complicated and then broken. Tendencies towards strengthening of the labor movement were noted, resulting in a revolt.

In the long term, the historical events of 1917 in Russia stopped any further expansion of foreign capital into the Baku oil industry. In March 1918, the power of the workers and peasants was established, and on June 2, 1918, a decree was published which declared the Russian oil industry to be the property of the people.

On 24th May 1924, the Azerbaijan Revolutionary Committee adopted a decree on the nationalization of the Azerbaijan oil industry. In accordance with the decree, all oil producing, refining, oil trade, and auxiliary enterprises were declared to be the property of the state. The Oil Committee, created to manage the oil business in Azerbaijan, liquidated 272 private petroleum companies located in the Baku region.

Mir-Yusif Mir-Babayev, Doctor of Chemical Sciences is a Professor at Azerbaijan Technical University. His articles, "Azerbaijan's Oil History: A Chronology Leading up to the Soviet Era" (Part 1) and "A Brief Oil Chronology since 1920" (Part 2) published in AI 10.2 and 11.2 (2002 and 2003). Search at AZER.com.
These articles have now been expanded into a small book entitled "Brief Chronology of the History of Azerbaijan's Oil Business" by M.F. Mir-Babayev, Baku: 2004, 200 pp. The book is a summary of the chronology of the oil business in Azerbaijan from the 9th century through February 2004. Contact author for copies: http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazi ... tment.html