The brewery on Chmielewskiego Street in Szczecin's Pomorzany district has operated under various names since the mid-19th century. According to Wikipedia and a local report by Carlsberg Polska, its beginnings go back to 1848, and after the war the first brew was made in January 1946. On several dates and details the versions differ, so in each such case we note who claims what.

Weidmann and the start of brewing in 1848

The company's report on the brewery's impact on the city describes the founder as the merchant Julius Albrecht Weidmann, who built a brewery with a malthouse, an ice house and its own well. According to Wikipedia, Weidmann obtained the authorities' permission to build on 2 May 1845, and brewing of Waldschlösschen beer began in 1848. Both publications give 1848 as the founding date; 1845 is the date of the permit, not of the start of production.

Wikipedia adds that Waldschlösschen beer received a silver medal at an industrial exhibition in 1857. After the founder's death the brewery was run by his wife, and then by his son Gustav.

Bohrisch: the takeover in 1861 and the boom

According to Wikipedia, on 16 May 1861 Gustav Weidmann made an offer to sell the brewery to Julius Bohrisch, owner of a brewery in Dresden. Bohrisch accepted the offer, paid 42,000 thalers and in the same year changed the name of the plant to J. Bohrisch Bairische Bier-Brauerei. He then began producing Bavarian-style beer.

The company's report stresses that the real boom came under the Bohrisch family, and the turning point was the construction of a new brewhouse. Thanks to it, 37,000 hectolitres of beer were brewed in 1892, and just before the outbreak of the First World War about 80,000 hectolitres. Wikipedia gives the same figures and adds that in 1886 the brewery produced 15,000 hectolitres.

The air raid of 1943 and the end of German production

The company's report states that a carpet-bombing raid in April 1943 destroyed about 30 per cent of the brewery, which limited and then halted production at the end of the war. Wikipedia specifies that it was a night raid of 20 to 21 April 1943, after which production was almost completely halted, and finally ceased in early 1945. The company Bohrisch Brauerei AG continued production in Kiel from 1948, according to Wikipedia.

The first brew on 12 January 1946

Wikipedia states that on 24 October 1945 the Polish authorities took over the brewery's buildings and equipment, and losses were then estimated at 35 per cent. Here a discrepancy with the company's report is visible, which speaks of 30 per cent after the raid of 1943. These may be two different measurements at different times, but neither publication settles this. The plant came under the administration of the Central Board of the Fermentation Industry in Bydgoszcz as the State Breweries in Szczecin, together with the Bergschloss and Elysium breweries.

Production was resumed on 12 January 1946. Both publications give this date. Wikipedia describes that a light beer with an extract of 8.3 per cent was brewed then, 20 hectolitres in total by the end of January, and 20,000 hectolitres by the end of the year.

From the State Breweries to the name Bosman

The name Bosman appears in the sources in connection with the transformations of the 1990s. According to Wikipedia, in 1992 the state enterprise was turned into the company Bosman Browar Szczecin SA, and the shares were taken up by the German Bitburger. The company's report says otherwise: Bitburger became the owner in 1997 and one of its first decisions was to change the name to Bosman Browar Szczecin S.A. The publications thus do not agree on the year, and the correct year would be settled only by the company's registry documents.

According to both publications, the brewery has belonged to the Carlsberg group since 2001. Wikipedia also notes a record annual production of 1 million hectolitres on 29 December 2005.