Fabryka Przetworców Chemicznych FA Pal "Dobrolin"

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The Fabryka Przetworów Chemicznych FA Pal "Dobrolin" was a Warsaw chemical company whose most important brand "Dobrolin" was known beyond the borders of Poland. The family business was nationalized after the Second World War and no longer exists today.

history

The German-born Ferdynand Adolf Pahl (1887 or 1889–1935) bought a small factory for shoe polish in 1908 in the Warsaw district of Wola at ul. Wołowa , which from that moment traded as Fabryka Przetworców Chemicznych FA Pal “Dobrolin” . In 1914, the entrepreneur moved production to rented premises at the Haberbusch i Schiele brewery . During the First World War , the factory was confiscated by the German administration ( Generalgouvernement ). After the war it fell back to the family, and in 1921 the founder's brothers, Gustaw and Oskar Pahl, joined the group of shareholders. In 1927 the company moved to its own building in theul. Wolska 157/159 . The company's main products were different types of shoe polish and floor wax , “Mytol” washing powder, cleaning agents (“Fors” and “Piecobłysk”), turpentine , flycatchers and “Sam” insect powder . After Ferdynand Pahl's death in 1935, his younger brother Gustaw became head of the company. During the Battle of Warsaw in 1939, in consultation with the Polish authorities, the company management had barrels filled with turpentine brought to the Wola district, where they - set on fire - delayed the advance of the German troops ( 4th Panzer Division ). The factory buildings were hardly destroyed during the war and after the war the family resumed production. The company was nationalized on December 31st . After production was stopped, machines and raw materials were removed. The factory was taken over by the Warsaw steel spring factory PZL . The old factory buildings have now been torn down, and the property development company Dantex , which belongs to the PZL Group, has built a housing estate in its place called "Osiedle Dobrolin".

literature

  • Zofia Jurkowlaniec and 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 , ISBN 978-83-62020-46-1 , Fundacja Wspołpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej / Dom Spotkań z Historią, Warsaw 2012, pp. 179–185

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zofia Jurkowlaniec and 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 , see LitVerz.
  2. ↑ The Pahl family who immigrated to Poland probably came from northern Germany. At the beginning of the 19th century she settled in Koło ( Greater Poland ). Later family members moved to Leslau / Włocławek and in 1907 to Warsaw. The first representative of the family in Warsaw was the entrepreneur Ferdynand Adolf Pahl
  3. ↑ Eugeniusz Szulc, Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie: Zmarli i ich rodziny , Biblioteka Syrenki, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1989, ISBN 978-8306016062
  4. ↑ Even if the name of the family was "Pahl", the company always operated as "Pal"
  5. ↑ Jerzy S. Majewski, Czołgi w terpentynie, Wolska przy cmentarzu katolickim at Gazeta.pl (Warszawa) from September 1, 2009 (in Polish, accessed June 19, 2014)
  6. ↑ PZL was and is an aviation technology company that for today Polski Holding obronny belongs
  7. ↑ The settlement is being built in several stages, the first stage was completed in 2009, the construction of the third stage should be completed in 2014

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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 20 ° 56 ′ 38 ″  E