Stanisław Lubomirski (entrepreneur)

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Stanislaw Lubomirski

Stanisław Sebastian Lubomirski (born January 31, 1875 in Kraków , † August 16, 1932 in Karlsbad ) was a Polish magnate as well as an important entrepreneur and banker of his time.

Life

Lubomirski came from the influential and wealthy Lubomirski family , who belonged to the Polish nobility; he carried the title of prince. His father was Eugeniusz Adolf Lubomirski (1825-1911), his brother Władysław Lubomirski (1866-1934). He studied in Berlin and in Freiburg, Switzerland . In 1905 he married Jadwiga, born in Zakopane . Jełowiecka. During the First World War he lived in Saint Petersburg from 1915 . In 1918 he returned to Warsaw.

Stanisław Lubomirski was one of the most important Polish entrepreneurs of his time. He was involved in 13 companies worth around 228 million zlotys .

banker

With Henryk Radiszewski, Lubomirski first founded the Landesbankhaus ( Krajowy Dom Bankowy ) and developed it into the Warsaw Industrial Bank ( Bank Przemysłowy Warszawski ), which was entered in the Warsaw Commercial Register in 1910 with a share capital of 3 million rubles and financial support from a Czech financial group around the commercial bank Živnostenská banka was entered. Lubomirski headed the bank as Chairman of the Board of Directors until 1918.

Since 1926 Lubomirski was the chairman of the board of the Warsaw bank Handlowy ; In 1931 he left the management of the bank. He was also a partner in the Zjednoczonych Ziem Polskich SA bank

Industrialist

In May 1910 Lubomirski founded the Warsaw airline "Awiata" ( Warszawskie Towarzystwo Lotnicze "Awiata" ). This first flight school in Poland was based at the Mokotów Airport that it operated .

He was the owner of the rolling mill Towarzystwo Akcyjne Walcowni "Włochy" and from 1921 a partner in the machine factory Fabryka Maszyn i Odlewów "Orthwein, Karasiński i S-ka" . In Poland, Lubomirski represented Italian economic interests, among other things he was a representative of the Trieste insurance company Assicurazioni Generali . But he also invested abroad, for example in refineries on the Caspian Sea .

official

Lubomirski founded the Central Association of Polish Industry "Lewiatan" ( Centralny Związek Polskiego Przemysłu, Górnictwa, Handlu i Finansów "Lewiatan" ), of which he was president until 1932. He also sat on the boards of the Association of Polish Banks and the Association of Polish Industrialists .

In 1919 he served as the diplomatic representative of Poland ( Minister pełnomocny , Poseł Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej ) in Washington .

Individual evidence

  1. a b according to Grażyna Legutko, Ida Sadowska: Bojownicy polskiej sprawy: Wacław Sieroszewski i Gustaw Daniłowski wobec myśli i czynu Józefa Piłsudskiego: wybór materiałów z lat 1898-1943 , ISBN 9788371333262 , Wydawn. Akademii Świętokrzyskiej, 2007, p. 94
  2. according to Teresa Zielińska: Poczet polskich rodów arystokratycznych , Volume 1, ISBN 9788302064296 , WSiP, Warsaw 1997, p. 26
  3. according to Wojciech Morawski, Od marki do złotego. Historia finansów Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej , ISBN 9788301156671 , Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2008, p. 184
  4. according to Almanach wiedzy powszechnej , Wydawnictwo "Skrzydła", 1999, p. 143
  5. according to Mieczysław Grzyb, Narodowościowo-polityczne aspekty przemian stosunków własnościowych i kadrowych w górnośląskim przemyśle. W latach 1922-1939 , issue 228 of the series: Prace naukowe Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach , University of Silesia , Katowice 1978, p. 121
  6. Wojciech Morawski: Bankowość prywatna w 2-ej Rzeczypospolitej , Volume 407, Szkoła Główna Handlowa (ed.), Warsaw 1996, p. 146
  7. according to Aleksander Lednicki and Zbigniew Koziński (eds.): Pamiętnik 1914-1918 , Volume 1, ISBN 9788386575138 , Nakł. Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej, 1994, p. 95