A building contractor of Olsztyn, an owner of a brickyard and a member of the City Council. He arrived in Olsztyn and being a butcher opened a small meat processing plant in Krzywa Street (currently Hugona Kołłątaja Street).

 

 

In 1880 within the confines of a project of Oscar Belian, the mayor of Olsztyn, the city strongly supported the development of industry and thus a modern slaughterhouse was opened as well as a meat processing plant in Królewiecka Street (currently Wojska Polskiego Avenue). Naujack did not manage to withstand the competition and was forced to close down his own slaughterhouse, changing his profession and becoming a brick manufacturer. His brickyard was situated in Zatorze, at 10 Kolejowa Street. At first, clay necessary to bake bricks was obtained from all slopes and hills neighbouring the brickyard. W 1892 Robert Luckhardt, an architect, designed the first network of streets and a spatial layout of a new district in the terrain levelled by the Naujack’s brickyard. From the end of the 70s of the 19th century Olsztyn began to expand and there was a demand for bricks so Naujack quickly came into a fortune. His new social status made way for him to the City Council, which in the times of Belian, consisted of leading entrepreneurs from Olsztyn. At the turn of the 20th century Naujack began to erect tenement houses for rent, becoming the most considerable renter in the city. Spending little money he bought a number of plots in the place which, in the 80s, was considered to be the outskirts of Olsztyn: Cesarska Street (currently Dąbrowszczaków Street), Długa Street (currently Warmińska Street), Kopernika and Schillera Street (currently Adama Mickiewicza Street). Soon the city started extending towards a railway station open in 1872 and the property of Naujack turned out to be situated in the new exclusive centre of the city. The value of Naujack’s property multiplied. In 1945 the Russian destroyed all his tenement houses but the following ones: at 7 and 8 Warmińska Street, at 1, 3, 5 and 7 Mickiewicza Street and two magnificent tenement houses: Naujack’s Tenement House (3 Dąbrowszczaków Street) and Villa Fortuna (9 Dąbrowszczaków Street). In the tenement house nowadays called Naujack’s Tenement House Naujack himself resided only for a few months. After that he moved to an even more impressive tenement house with a lean turret, at the Crossroads of Cesarska Street (Dąbrowszczaków Street) and Schillera Street(Adama Mickiewicza Street), opposite the prestigious building of a local high school. This tenement house did not survive the wartime turmoil, it was burnt in March 1945 by the Red Army soldiers. Naujack’s brickyard as well as Max Lion’s brickyard were the main suppliers of brick for new buildings in the rapidly developing Olsztyn of the mayor Oscar Belian at the turn of the 20th century. Naujack was capable of co- operating with his competitors. When there was an order placed for supplying building material for the construction of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, brickyards of both councilors, Naujack and Lion, supplied the demanded quantity of bricks. Otto Naujack was able to take advantage of the economic situation of the time. We owe to him some of the most beautiful tenement houses of Olsztyn – tokens of the time of so called ”young capitalism”.