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The Wentzl Foundation
Anna Laskowska (née Wentzl) established The Wentzl Family Foundation in her Will and bequeathed to it the tenement house at No. 19 in the Great Square of Kraków and the "J. Wentzl" company, which should remain the property of the Foundation forever and under no circumstances be transferred to a third party.
The Foundation is the owner of the Polish trademark Wentzl (PWP Z.418548 / R.277717).
Anna Laskowska's Will provided that the purpose of the Foundation is to allocate its income to provide material assistance to the descendants of Anna's cousin, Maria Waleria Wentzl and her husband Ludwik Moczarski, the descendants of Józef Rostafiński and the descendants of Józef Stummer, in each of these cases until the final extinction of the line. In the event of the extinction of all family lines entitled to benefits, the Foundation's income should be allocated to benefits for elderly Roman Catholic women from good homes who are temporarily or permanently in a difficult financial situation. There are living descendants of the Moczarski and Rostafiński lines.
Anna Laskowska's Will directed that:
- a fixed part of the Foundation's annual income should be allocated to the maintenance of the tenement house (constitutionally set at 20% of the Foundation's annual net income).
- the members of the Supervisory Board are to be elected from among well-known and respected persons who guarantee to act in the direction indicated in her Will.
The Foundation and its legal title to the tenement house at number 19 on the Great Square in Krakow were formally confirmed by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal (its highest court) on October 16, 1998.
The Board of the Family Foundation does not have the support of the eligible beneficiaries of the Wentzl Family named in the Will. In the opinion of the heirs, the actions of the Foundation's authorities do not meet the Foundress's expectations regarding the running of the Foundation and the management of its assets. This situation has persisted since the establishment of the Family Foundation and the entrusting of its assets to persons who are strangers and in no way connected with the Wentzl Family. To date, the Family has not been successful in its legal efforts to remedy this situation. Most of the Family Foundation's income over the years has not been allocated and paid out to the entitled beneficiaries of the Family, contrary to the express will of the Foundress, Anna Laskowska née Wentzl, and is being spent in a manner that raises numerous doubts among the Foundress's descendants. Supervision of the Foundation's activities is the responsibility of the Ministry of Family, Labor, and Social Policy.
Vencelík
Businesses with a permit to operate under the name Vencelík are separate from companies operating under the name Wentzl.
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