Stanisław Rolbieski

During this period he started working at the Reparaturbetrieb der östlichen Eisenbahn (English: Eastern Railway repair shop - today's PESA Bydgoszcz) and then for six months in a factory in the German Empire.

Arriving in the area while the Greater Poland uprising was raging, the locally ruling Supreme People's Council of the Netze District handed him over the management of the trade and industry sector.

From 1920 to 1923 he was the deputy state commissioner in Bydgoszcz, in charge of the local Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Polish: Izba Przemysłowo-Handlowa) then located at 10 Nowy Rynek.

[1] Acting for the Polish industry of Bydgoszcz, he initiated the purchase of large German enterprises by the city, such as the shipping company "Bromberger Schleppschiffahrt" (renamed Żegluga Bydgoska).

Following the outset of World War II and the German invasion of the city, Rolbieski did not evacuate, feeling responsible for the fate of the employees and the property of the companies he was leading.

The Nazi authorities accused him of dismantling and evacuating the "Bydgoska Fabryka Kabli" and blowing up the factory dam and the bridge over the Brda River (actions which were carried out by the retreating polish troops).

On 20 October 1939, together with his wife and son, he was arrested and executed the same day in the northern wooden district of "Las Gdański", at the Parish Cemetery of St. Vincent de Paul's church (today at 56 Stefana Wyszyńskiego street).

In 1922, he had the factory bought by a bespoke joint-stock company established for the occasion, called the "Karbid Wielkopolski", in which the city of Bydgoszcz was a major shareholder.

Historic cable factory building in Bydgoszcz
Smukała complex in 1905