Lilpop (Family)

The Lilpop family was a dynasty of industrialists from Warsaw.

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

But the pride of the family under Lilpop leadership was an engineering factory " Lilpop, Rough and Loewenstein ," Industrial Society of Mechanical Werke AG in Warsaw. It was the largest industrial enterprise in the former Kingdom of Poland and later in 1918 in the independent state of Poland. Only in the year 1944, this factory as a result of the war was totally destroyed.

Known members of the family were:

  • Jerzy Karol Lilpop (1781-1833), goldsmith
  • Stanisław Lilpop (* 1817, † 1866), a pioneer in the engineering industry in the Kingdom of Poland, founder of the Warsaw works Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein, inventor
  • Ludwik FM Lilpop (* 1845, † 1905), elder of the watchmakers guild in Warsaw
  • Edward August Lilpop (* 1844, † 1911), Warsaw architect of the era of historicism
  • Stefan Ludwik Lilpop, son of Ludwik (* 1872, † 1923), clockmaker and art collector, promoter of theater.
  • Lilpop Franciszek (1870-1937), architect Warsaw
  • Waclaw Lilpop (1887-1949), Urologist, founder of the Polish urologists society
  • Jerzy Lilpop (1888-1945), botanist, paleontologist, curator of the Department of Botany in Nature Museum in Krakow
  • Zbigniew Lilpop (1917-2007), electrical engineer in the field of urban transport services
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