Fabryka Garbarska PF "Bracia Pfeiffer"
The Fabryka Garbarska PF "Bracia Pfeiffer" (also: Bracia Pfeiffer, Szlenkier i Temler , later: Warszawskie Zakłady Garbarskie i Zakłady Wklęsłodrukowe ) was a large tannery founded in Warsaw at the beginning of the 18th century , which was destroyed in World War II.
history
Jan Walter Pfeiffer (1712–1796) came to Warsaw from Balingen in Württemberg in the first half of the 18th century . Around 1750 he founded a tannery for calf, sheep, goat and horse hides in ul. Leszno (in the Praga district ) ; later cattle hides were also tanned for shoe leather. In 1777 Pfeiffer was one of the founders of the Warsaw Tannery Guild. The company remained in family hands until the Second World War. It was succeeded by Jan Chrystian Pfeiffer (1724–1796), Jan Henryk Pfeiffer (1789–1861), Stanisław Fryderyk Pfeiffer (1819–1890), the brothers Wladysław Ignacy (1854–1898) and Stanisław Leopold Pfeiffer (1856–1929) and Józef Mieczysław Pfeiffer (1888–1969). His sons and nephews were the company's last managing partners. The family belonged to the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Warsaw.
Under Jan Henryk Pfeiffer, production was relocated to ul. Nowolipie , later to ul. Smoczna . With the move to Smoczna , the company was the largest tannery in Warsaw. In the 1880s, a health and pension fund for employees, an own doctor's practice with an attached pharmacy, a library as well as a day nursery and school for company employees were created. In 1914 the tannery employed around 540 workers. The daily production was around 1,000 pieces of leather.
During the First World War , the Russian authorities deported factory equipment and raw materials in 41 freight cars to Russia. During the Second World War, the factory premises adjacent to the Jewish ghetto helped ghetto residents and the Jewish fighting organization ŻOB was supported in the subsequent ghetto uprising . The factory burned down in 1944 as part of the fighting during the Warsaw Uprising (which was also supported by the company's owners). The owner family was evicted and deported. Production machines, raw materials, and inventory were requisitioned; According to a written report by the German administration , the stock taken over was almost 40,000 animal skins, 15 leather goods wagons, 34 tons of fat and 178 electric motors. The family home and factory were completely destroyed. Today, on the site of the factories, there is the “Klif” shopping center built in the 1990s at ul. Okopowa .
After the war, the heirs repaired the nearby Fabryka Garbarska Temler i Szwede tannery, which was also owned by the family ; In 1946 this company was nationalized, later transferred to the state Warszawskie Zakłady Garbarskie nr 1 and then to the Fabryka Obuwia "Syrena" . These successors have not been at the old production site since 1960. There has been a dispute over the return of the valuable property to the family for years.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kolejny zabytek na przemysłowej mapie Warszawy , Information from the Masovian Monument Protection Office ( Mazowiecki Wojewódzki Konserwator Zabytków ) from September 22, 2010 on the inclusion of the remains of the Temler i Szwede factory in the monument protection register (in Polish, accessed on July 23, 2014)
- ↑ a b Eugeniusz Szulc: Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie: zmarli i ich rodziny. Syrenki, Wydawca Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1989, ISBN 83-06-01606-8 , p. 436 and others (in Polish, accessed on July 23, 2014)
- ↑ a b Fabryka Garbarska PF "Bracia Pfeiffer" on the Made in Wola website (in Polish, accessed on July 23, 2014)
- ↑ The Fabryka Garbarska Temler i Szwede tannery belonged to the related families Temler, Szwede and Pfeiffer
- ↑ Wojciech Surmacz: Garbowanie skóry Temlerów ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . from January 28, 2014 at Forbes.pl (in Polish, accessed July 23, 2014)
literature
- Zofia Jurkowlaniec, Roland Borchers: Polacy z wyboru: Rodziny pochodzenia niemieckiego w Warszawie w XIX i XX wieku / Poland of free choice: families of German origin in Warsaw in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fundacja Wspołpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej / Dom Spotkań z Historią, Warsaw 2012, ISBN 978-83-62020-46-1 , pp. 186 ff.
Web links
- Article in Warszawa Wikia (in Polish, accessed April 12, 2014)
- Jerzy S. Majewski, Okopowa 58/72 - fabryka braci Pfeifferów dated June 12, 2003 from Gazeta Warszawa (in Polish, accessed April 12, 2014)
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 48.2 ″ N , 20 ° 58 ′ 46.5 ″ E