Adolf Daab

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Adolf Daab (born April 28, 1872 in Warsaw , † January 27, 1924 in Paris ) was a Polish building contractor and city ​​councilor of German descent.

Origin and family

Adolf Daab's grave in the Evangelical Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw

Adolf Daab was the son of Johann Philipp Daab (1818–1890) and Christina Daab geb. Uhle (1826-1912). His father came from the Odenwald , his mother from Rheinhessen . His grandparents moved with their family to what was then the Kingdom of Poland in 1838 and then settled in Warsaw, where his parents married in 1848. German was spoken in his parents' house. When Adolf Daab started his own family with Anna Daab geb. Knittel founded, the Polish language was chosen. The couple had four daughters together. Anna Daab also had two sons from a previous marriage.

Live and act

Daab dropped out of school and completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer at the Robert Karstens company . He then served in the Tsarist army in the Crimea for five years . In 1899 he became a shareholder in the company founded by Fryderyk Martens in 1866, which was converted into the joint stock company Bauindustriebetriebe “Fr. Martens and A. Daab ” .

The company constructed numerous public and private buildings in Warsaw and in the Kingdom of Poland, in Warsaw a. a. a residential building of the Evangelical Augsburg community, the Jabłkowski brothers' department store, the building of the Higher Commercial School (SGH) and the railway tunnel on the center line in the center of Warsaw.

Daab died in Paris, where he had been to the hospital because of cancer. He was buried in the Evangelical-Augsburg cemetery in Warsaw, his religious affiliation was Evangelical-Lutheran .

literature

  • Adolf Daab in: Michał Czajka, Marcin Kamler, Witold Sienkiewicz: Leksykon historii Polski. Wyd. Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw, 1995, ISBN 83-214-1042-1 .
  • Adolf Daab in: Jan Szturc: Ewangelicy w Polsce. Slownik biograficzny XVI - XX wieku. Augustana, Bielsko-Biała, 1998, ISBN 83-85970-50-9 .
  • Adolf Daab: W Warszawie i na Krymie. edited by Tadeusz Stegner with a foreword and comments. Semper, Warsaw, 1996, ISBN 83-86951-10-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Daab, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish building contractor and city councilor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1924
Place of death Paris