History

Last Name engineer Szczepan Łazarkiewicz was known at the Gdańsk University of Technology from the very beginning 50swhen I was a student at this university. After graduating, I came to Warsaw especially to work under his leadership.

I was a young, ambitious graduate packed with various information. Confrontation of my knowledge base with knowledge and experience engineer Szczepan Łazarkiewicz it turned out very pale. He showed me how much I still need to learn to gain complete knowledge about pumps.

Engineer Łazarkiewicz was the doyen of Polish pumping. He contributed significantly to the development of the design of modern pumps in Poland. Even when he had an established position as a pumper, he willingly took the risk of introducing new solutions. Thanks to this, a number of pump structures for the energy industry were introduced into production, for example large diagonal pumps for Ostrołęka, Goczalkowice, Turów.

He was a very upright, consistent, fair man, demanding of himself and others. His diligence, punctuality and factual assessment of each of our work earned him high recognition. He rarely gave praise, but to be praised by him was a great honor. He tried to supervise all work in the design office.

It is often said today: "he is from the Łazarkiewicz school." This means a person committed to work, performing his tasks at a high level. He has always been the driving force behind our actions. He raised a lot of engineers who try to continue his work.

At the Warsaw Pump Factory, we had the opportunity to work with the most outstanding practitioner of technical knowledge in the field of centrifugal pumps in Poland. Acquired skills developed in “School of engineers. "Szczepan Łazarkiewicz" are especially visible today, after a dozen or so years.

From the article by Zygmunt Froehlke, Nestor of Polish pumping, "Wafapomp", 1976, no. 13 (129).

Zygmunt Froehlke, employee of the Warsaw Pump Factory in 1955-1974, successor
Mieczysław Stępniewski as the chief designer.