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26-702: The origins of the river are in Insko Lake (Polish: jezioro Ińsko), and it flows through a succession of smaller lakes. The confluence of Ina River is localized in Police town, near Szczecin . It has a length of 129 km, and the basin area of the Ina is 2189 km. The main towns situated on the Ina River are: In Pomeranian history , the Ihna from 1295 to 1464 separated Pomerania-Stettin and Pomerania-Wolgast. In

52-724: A ship moored on the Oder River serving as a camp (Umschulungslager Bremerhaven). In addition, a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp was located in Pölitz. During World War II , the plant made Pölitz a nine-time bombing target of the Allied Oil Campaign from late April 1943 onward, leading to 70% of the town being destroyed. The city with the plant was captured by the Soviet Union's Red Army during

78-658: A subsidiary of the ExxonMobil group since 1999. On 25 February 1890 a joint venture between the German industrialists Franz Ernst Schütte , Carl Schütte  [ de ] and Wilhelm Anton Riedemann  [ de ] and the American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was agreed in the German city of Bremen to create a subsidiary of Standard Oil that would operate as a petroleum business in Germany. In 1891,

104-411: Is a part of The Pomeranian Medical University . The sister cities of Police are: German-American Petroleum Society Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft , also known as German-American Petroleum Company , was a German petroleum company that was a subsidiary of Standard Oil and was founded in 1890. From 1950 onwards the company was called Esso Deutschland GmbH and has been

130-654: Is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship , in northwestern Poland . It is the capital of Police County and one of the biggest towns of the Szczecin agglomeration . The town is situated on the Oder River and its estuary , south of the Szczecin Lagoon and the Bay of Pomerania . The centre of Police is situated about 15 kilometres (9 miles) north of the centre of Szczecin . The name of

156-565: Is situated on the Oder River and an estuary of the Oder River - Roztoka Odrzańska , south of the Lagoon of Szczecin and the Bay of Pomerania . The centre of Police Town is situated about 15 km (9 mi) north of the centre of Szczecin . Police is at located in the Ueckermünder Heide ( Polish : Puszcza Wkrzańska ) with the Świdwie Nature Reserve around Lake Świdwie near Tanowo and Dobra . A kayak route follows

182-571: The Battle of Berlin on 26 April 1945. While most of the former German territory east of the Oder-Neisse line became Polish, Pölitz, situated on the western bank of the Oder, remained a Soviet -administered exclave : Marshal Zhukov decreed the establishment of a Soviet county with Pölitz, Ziegenort, Jasenitz, Messenthin and Scholwin. 25,000 German workers had to disassemble the plant before it

208-615: The Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft . Oil production in the Reich expanded significantly during World War II, especially in the occupied countries - with Romania alone accounting for 3.3 million barrels in 1938 and producing 8 million barrels for German export in 1940—a staggering increase of 4.7 million barrels in only two years. The number of people employed in oil production grew substantially from 1939 to 1944, including many forced labourers and prisoners of war from Poland, Ukraine and

234-998: The Gunica River from Węgornik through Tanowo , Tatynia and Wieńkowo to Police-Jasienica . At the Szczecin Lagoon is a small yacht marina on the mouth of the Łarpia River (part of Oder ) - 'Olimpia'. The ruins of the synthetic petrol plant (Hydrierwerke Pölitz – Aktiengeselschaft) are now a habitat of bats ( Barbastelle , Greater mouse-eared bat , Daubenton's Bat , Natterer's bat , Brown long-eared bat ). Major roads under state control connect Police to Trzebież and Nowe Warpno , No. 114; to Tanowo , No. 114; and to Szczecin over Przęsocin . Main streets in Police include: ul. Tanowska, ul. Bankowa, ul. Grunwaldzka, ul. Kościuszki, ul. Jasienicka, ul. Dworcowa, ul. Piastów, ul. Wojska Polskiego, ul. Asfaltowa, ul. Cisowa, ul. Piłsudskiego, and ul. Wyszyńskiego. A clinic hospital in Police (Siedlecka Street, The New Town, Osiedle Gryfitów)

260-583: The Kagran area of Vienna From 1938 onwards the company had holdings in Hydrierwerke Pölitz  [ de ] AG in Pölitz near Stettin, together with IG Farben , who responsible for the production of the chemical Zyklon B for gas chambers , and Rhenania-Ossag. At the start of World War II , the German economy was converted to a war footing and all petroleum distribution companies in

286-534: The Treaty of Stettin (1630) until the Treaty of Stockholm (1720) , Pölitz was part of Swedish Pomerania , and of Prussian Pomerania thereafter. In 1808, Pölitz became independent from Stettin again. In 1815, Pölitz became part of the restructured Province of Pomerania , administered within Landkreis Randow county. In 1939, this county was dissolved and Pölitz was made part of Groß-Stettin . In 1937,

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312-414: The synthetic fuel plant Hydrierwerke Pölitz AG was founded by IG Farben , Rhenania-Ossag , and Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft which by 1943 was producing 15% of Nazi Germany 's synthetic fuels, 577,000 tons . The plant derived its workforce from an adjacent system of camps (Pommernlager, Nordlager, Tobruklager, Wullenwever-Lager, Arbeitserziehungslager Hägerwelle, Dürrfeld Lager) plus

338-599: The 16th century, it was one of the first European rivers to have its channel straightened , and was an important shipping artery up to WWII. Tributaries of the Ina are: Krępiel , Mała Ina , Reczek , Struga Goleniowska . This West Pomeranian Voivodeship location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Poland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Police, West Pomeranian Voivodeship Police ( Polish: [pɔˈlʲit͡sɛ] ; German: Pölitz )

364-447: The American oil company sold so many shares at that time, that the three companies each owned a third of the shares. In 1930, the supply regulation of potato spirit for fuel purposes came into force in Germany for all fuel companies. In each case, 2.5% by weight of the produced or imported quantity of fuel was to be obtained from the Reich monopoly administration. This rate increased gradually until October 1932 to 10%. In 1931 DAPOLIN

390-609: The Association of Petroleum Distribution were merged and only gasoline with no attached branding was sold. As the German-American Petroleum Company was still considered a German Company it was put on the List of Defense Contractors and received preferential material quotation. Two directors of the company, Karl Lindemann  [ de ] and Emil Helfferich  [ de ] were members of

416-537: The Soviet Union. German domestic oil production rose significantly during the course of the second world war, until allied bombing campaign in 1944. In January 1944, total synthetic petroleum output was approximately 3.6 million barrels. In June, the month after the Allied petroleum raids began, production dropped by one-third to 2.2 million barrels. By the end of 1944 it had dropped another one-third, plummeting to 1.2 million barrels. The German-American Petroleum Company

442-516: The company and moved the company's headquarters to Hamburg. After the Benzene association scientist, Walter Oswald had developed a super-gasoline in 1924 by adding benzene to gasoline., a DAPG delivery agreement enabled them to also offer a knock-resistant super gasoline by adding about 40% benzene. This product was called Duolin and sold in September 1928 as red-coloured Esso. A 10% benzene

468-432: The east of former Poland , arrived in the region to replace the German population that had fled or were forcibly expelled . They were joined by refugees from Greece and Yugoslav Macedonia in 1953. The ruins of the plant still remain standing, though they are not secured and are dangerous to visit. A large chemical plant ( Zakłady Chemiczne "Police" ) was built in the town in 1969 and has grown since to become one of

494-672: The help of their non-executable foreign exchange reserves, took over half of Oelhag. At this time, the Standard Oil of New Jersey owned 94% of the German-American Petroleum Society. As a result of the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and the subsequent reorganization of the local industry, the Vacuum Oil Company was assigned to the German-American Petroleum Society along with its refinery in

520-695: The largest in Poland. It produces mostly titanium dioxide pigments and nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. Police was in the Szczecin Voivodeship from 1946 to 1998. Since 1999 the town has been part of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . Notable buildings from the pre-WW2 era: The tourist and cultural information office is localised in The Gothic Chapel in Bolesław Chrobry Square in The Old Town of Police Police

546-554: The mid-18th century. Nearby Jasienica Abbey , now within the Police city limits, was secularized during the Protestant Reformation , which was adapted in the Duchy of Pomerania in 1534. After its secularization, the abbey became a ducal domain, and was the site of the treaty that for the first time partitioned the duchy into a western and eastern part ( Pomerania-Wolgast and Pomerania-Stettin ) in 1569. From

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572-550: The petrol import business of Edmund Siemers was transferred to the company In the mid-1890s, the company took over half of the shares of the Bremen Petroleum Refinery. At the beginning of the 20th century, the petroleum was sold under the brand DAPOL and the American gasoline under the brand DAPOLIN with the famous Indian head. In 1904, the Standard Oil Company took a 50 percent stake in

598-492: The town comes from Proto-Slavic pole , which means field . The settlement was first mentioned in 1243. Pomeranian duke Barnim of Pomerania granted Magdeburg law to the town in 1260. At the end of the 13th century, the town had become a fief of a local dynasty of knights , the Drake family. In 1321, with the death of Otto Drake, the town became a dependency of nearby Stettin (now Szczecin), hindering its growth until

624-656: Was added to the dapoline fuel to increase the knock resistance. In 1928 the tanker shipping company of the German-American Petroleum Society was renamed to the Waried Tankschiff Rhederei  [ de ] GmbH. During the global economic crisis , the shares of MAN and Haniel in the Oelhag , the German petroleum company were bought by the German-American Petroleum Society and the German mineral oil company Rhenania-Ossag  [ de ] , that would be later called, Shell Germany Oil GmbH. ARCO ,

650-520: Was renamed Standard Gasoline. In 1935, the German-American Petroleum Company was the market leader in Germany among the Big Five petrol station chains with 18,327 petrol stations (32.7%) as well as with Rhenania-Ossag with a sales ratio of 20.9%. During 1937-1938, the brand was renamed to ESSO . Later in 1938, the new ESSO brand was printed on the cover sheet of the drivers manual. In 1938, German-American Petroleum Company and Rhenania-Ossag, with

676-546: Was sent to the USSR . Gradually, the area without the plant was given to Poland: Mścięcino on 7 September 1946, and Police with Jasienica on 19 September. On 25 February 1947 the plant also passed to Polish control. As a result, the Soviet Union allowed Polish annexations of German land west of the river Odra, beyond the border as agreed on the Potsdam Conference . Polish settlers , partially expellees from

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