Zbigniew Niemczycki

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Zbigniew Marian Niemczycki (born January 23, 1947 in Nisko ) is a Polish entrepreneur .

Again and again he is listed in the richest lists of the country. With an estimated fortune of 200 million złoty , the Niemczyckis took 96th place in the Polish edition of Forbes magazine in 2011 in the list of the richest Poles ( Liście Najbogatszych Polaków 2011 ) . The magazine Wprost , however, estimated the couple's fortune in the same year at 1,350 million zloty (12th place among the richest Poles).

Entrepreneur

From 1961 to 1965, Niemczycki attended the Liceum Ogólnokształcącego im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej in Stalowa Wola .

In 1977 he moved to the United States with his wife. There he met the entrepreneur Burt SerVaas, the owner of Curtis International . SerVaas hired him and soon Niemczycki took over responsibility for the Eastern European business in the company. In the 1990s he bought part of the company from SerVaas. Already in the early 1980s - after his return to Poland - Niemczycki recognized the potential of the animation studios in Bielsko-Biała . In Hollywood he met William Hanna , the co-owner of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. , whom he was able to convince of the quality of Polish animation film makers. To this day, services for Hollywood productions are provided in Bielsko-Biała - as was recently the case with the film The Smurfs .

Niemczycki is - together with his wife Katarzyna, with whom he has four children - the owner of the Polish Curtis Group . The activities of this holding company, which employs around 1200 people, include:

  • Production of consumer electronics components. In a factory in Krzywonos in Mława plastic parts for televisions and monitors around 280 employees LG , Daewoo and Thomson made
  • White Eagle Aviation SA . The WEA was a private airline that had its own terminal at Warsaw Chopin Airport . The company was active in three areas: AMS (maintenance of Boeing and ATR ), WEA (passenger and cargo flights) and VIP services (helicopter and air taxi service)
  • General Aviation Sp. Z oo , operator of the Góraszka private airport in Wiązowna
  • Hotel Bryza , a luxury hotel and spa complex in Jurata . The facility has 60 rooms and 20 suites in three buildings
  • Curtis Development Sp. Z oo The real estate developer develops its own and third-party projects and also undertook the award-winning renovation of the Karnicki Palace in Warsaw
  • Warsaw office properties Curtis Plaza and Horizon Plaza in Mokotów
  • Curtis Healthcare . The pharmaceutical manufacturer was founded in Poznan in autumn 1989 and employs 53 people. Here are OTC -Medikamente and dietary supplements manufactured.

The plan is to build a villa resort in Osadzie nad Jeziorem near Mikołajki .

Niemczycki is President of Polska Rada Biznesu and a member of the board of directors of the BCC Business Center Club .

A White Eagle Aviation helicopter at the “Góraszka Air Picnic” in 2007

Fundacja Polskie Orły

Fundacja Polskie Orły and the International Air Show in Góraszka.

Niemczycki is a private pilot and owner of airworthy historical aircraft ( Messerschmitt Bf 109 , MiG-15 ). He is president of the Fundacja Polskie Orły (German: Polish Eagle Foundation ), which he founded in 1997 . This foundation works to preserve the traditions of Polish civil and military aviation. Funds from the foundation flow u. a. into financial aid for relatives of pilots who have had an accident, into the restoration of old aircraft and support with flight training.

The main source of income for the organization is the Międzynarodowy Piknik Lotniczy "Góraszka" air show, which has been held annually since 1996 . The show, which is attended by up to 90,000 spectators, takes place in late May or early June and extends over a weekend. In recent years, in addition to demonstrations with acrobatics, sports and historical aircraft ( Junkers Ju-52 , Douglas DC-3 , Klemm KL , North American T-6 Texan , North American B-25 Mitchell , North American P-51D Mustang , Consolidated PBY Catalina , SB Lim-2 , PZL TS-11 Iskra , Hawker Hurricane , Supermarine Spitfire , Yak-3U , RWD-5R , de Havilland Tiger Moth , Boeing Stearman , CSS-13 and Piper Cub ) also those with current combat aircraft ( MiG-29 and F-16 ), transporter aircraft ( Alenia G-222 , PZL M-28 Skytruck ) as well as combat and transport helicopters ( Aérospatiale SA 341 Gazelle , Aérospatiale AS 332 Super Puma , Mil Mi-24 , Augusta A 109 , Eurocopter EC 135 , Bell UH-1D , Bell AH-1 Cobra , CH-47 Chinook , Sikorsky CH-53 , Bölkow Bo 105 ). Well-known acrobats such as Péter Besenyei , Hannes Arch , Jerzy Makula , Marek Szufa or Robert Kowalik have already performed.

Awards

Niemczycki has been honored several times for his entrepreneurial and patronage services. So he received:

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b according to Short curriculum vitae of Niemczycki Zbigniew Marian at Stalowka.net (an encyclopedia on Stalowa Wola), accessed on September 24, 2011 (in Polish)
  2. ↑ according to Information Katarzyna Frank-Niemczycka i Zbigniew Niemczycki at Forbes.pl from July 12, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c according to Information # 12 Zbigniew Niemczycki in the 2011 richest ranking of the magazine Wprost
  4. ↑ according to Information on the General information ( Memento of August 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from Curtis Development (in English)
  5. ↑ according to the BCC website
personal data
SURNAME Niemczycki, Zbigniew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niemczycki, Zbigniew Marian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Nisko