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Antoni Weynerowski
Antoni Weynerowski (12 June 1864 – 29 November 1939) was a Polish Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, founder in Bydgoszcz of the firm ''Leo'', renamed ''Kobra'', one of the largest shoe manufacture in Poland in the Second Polish Republic, interwar period. Biography Antoni was born on 12 June 1864, in Bromberg, as Bydgoszcz was named under Prussian Partition, Prussian rule. His mother was Joanna, née Olesek. His father, Wiktor Weynerowski, was the founder of a small felt footwear, shoe business: the pairs, produced at home, were sold by Weronika, Antoni's sister, peddling in the streets to find a buyer. With the growth of the industry, a factory was acquired, today non-existent, at the crossing of Swiętej Trojcy street in Bydgoszcz, Swiętej Trojcy street and Jagiellońska street in Bydgoszcz, Jagiellońska street. After graduation from Gymnasium (school), gymnasium, he worked in his father's company, located on two sites: Kastanien Allee (today's Kącik street) and Albert str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the eighth-largest city in Poland. It is the seat of Bydgoszcz County and the co-capital, with Toruń, of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The city is part of the Bydgoszcz–Toruń metropolitan area, which totals over 850,000 inhabitants. Bydgoszcz is the seat of Casimir the Great University, University of Technology and Life Sciences and a conservatory, as well as the Medical College of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It also hosts the Pomeranian Philharmonic concert hall, the Opera Nova opera house, and Bydgoszcz Airport. Being between the Vistula and Oder (Odra in Polish) rivers, and by the Bydgoszcz Canal, the city is connected via the Noteć, Warta, Elbe and German canals with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
