Towarzystwo Przemysłu Chemiczno-Farmaceutyczne d. Magister Klawe

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Entrance area of Polfa Warszawa SA, the successor company to the Magister Klawe works
Advertising for Klawe products.

The Towarzystwo Przemysłu Chemiczno-Farmaceutycznego d. Magister Klawe SA (actually with the addition: Warszawa ; formerly: Magister Klawe ; German: Society for chemical-pharmaceutical industry, formerly Magister Klawe A.-G., Warsaw or also: Factory of pharmaceutical and serum preparations Magister Klawe ) was a major Polish pharmaceutical company in the interwar period based in Warsaw .

history

Stanisław Adolf Klawe (November 6, 1877 in Warsaw - January 19, 1955 in Warsaw), great-grandson of a German immigrant, owned a pharmacy with a laboratory at what was then Plac Św in 1906 from his father Henryk Klawe . Aleksandra 10 (today's Plac Trzech Krzyży ) in Warsaw. It was here that the young Klawe began mass production of medicines such as Destrin and vaccines against cholera , typhus and smallpox . The specialties of the laboratory also included the production of milk powder (called “Mąka Mleczna” = milk flour) and a syrup with iron oxide under the “Homogen Klawe” brand. Immune sera and bandages were also produced during the First World War . After acquiring factory buildings at 22/24 Karolkowa Street , Klawe relocated production to the correspondingly converted halls. He gave up the pharmacy. The company that emerged from the laboratory now traded under the name Towarzystwo Przemysłu Chemiczno-Farmaceutycznego d. Mgr Klawe .

After several expansions to the program and the factory, 53 preparations were made from the company's own synthesis products in 1939 . In addition, 73 pharmaceuticals and various biological tinctures, effervescent tablets, organ preparations, mineral salts, plasmas , veterinary vaccines , injection liquids , catgut threads and chemical products were created. From 1940 insulin was also produced. Raw materials were partly produced on the family's own estates in Drwalew and Lasopole .

The company's products have been exported to several European countries, as well as Canada and the Middle East . Around 1939, 500–600 people were employed in Warsaw. The company published three of its own monthly trade magazines: “Medycyna Współczesna”, “Medycyna Weterynaryjna” and “Farmacja”. After the occupation of Warsaw by German troops in World War II , the company was placed under German administration and renamed Asid Serum Institut AG Dessau, Warsaw Department, Karolkowastrasse 22/24 . After the war, Stanisław Klawe began to rebuild his factory, but in 1946 it was expropriated by the Polish Ministry of Industry, nationalized and renamed Zakłady Przemysłu Chemiczno-Farmaceutycznego Polfa . The company was later called Warszawskie Zakłady Farmaceutyczne Polfa . After privatization in 2012, Jerzy Starak's Polpharma SA group of companies became the owner of the factory, which has since been known as Polfa Warszawa SA .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ statute Kasy Przezorności i Pomocy Pracowników Fizycznych Towarzystwa Przemysłu Chemiczno-Farmaceutycznego d. Magister Klawe, SA Warszawa ( Articles of Association of the Company's Workers Relief Fund )
  2. ↑ Chemistry work in factory and laboratory , Volume 60, editor: Berufsgenossenschaft der Chemischen Industrie , 1937, p. 609.
  3. ^ Journal of Immunity Research and Experimental Therapy. Volumes 87-88, G. Fischer, 1936, p. 397.
  4. ↑ M. Klawe-Mazurowa, Z Meklemburgii do Warszawy, dzieje potomków Jana Henryka Klawe , Warszawa 2017 (in Polish)

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. 159–163.
  • Maria Klawe-Mazurowa, Z Meklemburgii do Warszawy, dzieje potomków Jana Henryka Klawe, Warszawa 2017, ISBN 978-83-945874-0-6 .

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