Ludwig Heinrich Spiess

Ludwig Heinrich Spiess (Polish Ludwik Henryk Spiess ; born August 5, 1820 in Warsaw ; † September 5, 1896 ibid) was a Polish pharmacist and industrialist of German descent. He is considered to be the founder of the Polish pharmaceutical industry.

His father, Heinrich Bogumir Spiess (* 1785 in Stettin , † 1835 in Warsaw) came to Warsaw with his parents in 1796, where his father, Johann Melchior Spiess, was appointed a Prussian civil servant. In 1809 Heinrich Bogumir began to study pharmacy. In 1813 he married Louise Marie Marchand, a Polish woman of French descent. The couple had seven children, the fourth was Ludwig Heinrich.

Heinrich Bogumir Spiess founded a pharmacy "Spiess i Rakoczy" in Warsaw. He set up a vinegar factory in Tarchomin . In 1824 he built a mineral water drinking hall in Krasiński Park . After Heinrich Bogumir's death in 1835, Ludwig Heinrich became the heir to the pharmacy at the age of 15. In 1844 he founded a pharmacy depot, in 1848 he set up the bone meal works in Ruda Guzowska near Żyrardów , where he produced bone glue and bone meal as fertilizer. In 1860 he moved these plants to Tarchomin, where a large pharmaceutical industrial complex was built. In 1874 he ran the plant together with his son Stefan. The products have been exported to Germany, Russia and Sweden. In 1884 the company was renamed Przemysłowo-Handlowe Zakłady Chemiczne Ludwik Spiess i Syn SA (Ludwig Spiess and Son) .

After the Second World War the company was nationalized and renamed " Polfa Tarchomin ".

source

• history
• Eugeniusz Szulc: Cmentarze Ewangelickie w Warszawie. KAW Warszawa 1989, s. 90, ISBN 83-03-02835-9