Lilpop (family)

The Lilpop family was an industrial dynasty from Warsaw .

The ancestor of the family was Anton Augustin Lilpop (* 1742 , † 1815 ), a watchmaker from Graz in Austria , who in the last years of the reign of King August III. immigrated to Warsaw and founded a watchmaking company in 1789 , which existed as LM Lilpop until September 1939 .

The pride of the family under Lilpop management, however, was a mechanical engineering factory "Lilpop, Rau and Loewenstein", an industrial company of the Maschinenbauwerke AG in Warsaw. It was the largest industrial enterprise in what was then the Kingdom of Poland and subsequently in 1918 in the independent state of Poland. It was only in 1944 that this factory was completely destroyed as a result of the war.

Known members of the family were:

• Karol Jerzy Lilpop (1781–1833), goldsmith
• Stanisław Lilpop (* 1817 , † 1866 ), pioneer of the mechanical engineering industry in Congress Poland , founder of the Lilpop factory in Warsaw , Rau i Loewenstein , inventor
• Stanisław Wilhelm Lilpop (* 1863 , † 1930 ), founder of the Podkowa Leśna municipality
• Ludwik FM Lilpop (* 1845 , † 1905 ), elder of the watchmaking guild in Warsaw
• Edward August Lilpop (* 1844 , † 1911 ), Warsaw architect of the historicist era
• Stefan Ludwik Lilpop , son of Ludwik (* 1872 , † 1923 ), watchmaker and art collector, promoter of the theater.
• Franciszek Lilpop (1870–1937), Warsaw architect
• Wacław Lilpop (1887–1949), urologist, founder of the Polish Society of Urologists
• Jerzy Lilpop (1888–1945), botanist, paleontologist, curator of the Botanical Department in the Natural History Museum in Krakow
• Zbigniew Lilpop (1917–2007), electrical engineer in the field of urban transport

literature

• Stanislaw Szenic, Cmentarz Powązkowski 1851–1890 , Warsaw 1982;
• Eugeniusz Szulc, Cmentarz ewangelicko-augsburski w Warszawie , Warsaw 1989.
• Stanislaw Szenic, Cmentarz Powązkowski 1891–1918 , PIW Warsaw 1983;
• Wiesław Głębocki Zegarmistrzowie warszawscy XIX wieku, PWN Warszawa 1992;
• Stanisław Łoza Rodziny polskie obcego pochodzenia osiadłe w Warszawie i okolicach, I - III, Warszawa 1932-35;
• Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna, PWN Warszawa 1963;