Portrait photograph of Bogusław Allina taken in a photographic studio, most likely in the 1930s. Bogusław Allina is sitting in a chair. He is dressed in a suit.
Bogusław Allina was born on 11 June 1897 in Warsaw, and was the youngest son of Zygmunt Karol Allina and Julia née Rauch. In 1913, he graduated from the Junior High School of the Merchants' Assembly of the City of Warsaw. In 1913–1914 he studied at the Export Academy in Vienna. As he wrote in his biography, World War I found him in Russia, where he worked in the food industry, in the Pavlovskaya Sugar Factory in Sumy (then Kharkov Governorate), in the breweries in Kharkov, and then in the peasant industry of the "Kustarny Promysl" company in Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg). After returning to Poland in 1920, he started working in his father's export company "Sztuka Ludowa" based in Warsaw. From 1932 he held the position of director there and by 1939 he had organised about 150 cottage industry workshops in Poland. As a result of the World War II, the company was completely destroyed as a bomb was dropped on its premises – a tenement house on the corner of Mazowiecka and Świętokrzyska Streets. Bogusław Allina did not want to cooperate with the occupier and did not reactivate the company. During the occupation, the family subsisted on the financial resources earned before the war.
After the Warsaw Uprising, Bogusław Allina was deported to work in a camp in the Wrocław Fortress, where he stayed until liberation by the Red Army in 1945. After the war, he volunteered to work and was given the position of special delegate on behalf of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers to take over industry from the Red Army. He then served as technical director of the Brewing and Malting Association of the Lower Silesia Region, based in Wrocław. In September 1946, he was engaged by the Polish Association of Foreign Trade Varimex as head of the crafts and peasant industry department, and in January 1949 he served as head of the export department.
As for his private life, Bogusław Allina had two wives and three children. In 1926, he married Halina née Stankiewicz (born 13 February 1909), from a Kraków family of lawyers, and they had a son, Ryszard. Bogusław Allina suffered a double tragedy; Ryszard committed suicide in 1947 and his wife, following the death of their son, took her own life later that year. Bogusław Allina married for the second time in 1948 to Pelagia Lasocka (1915–2005). The couple had two children: Krystyna (b. 1949) and Joanna (b. 1950). Bogusław had two siblings: Karol Allina (1894–1967) and Stefania Allina (1895–1988). Bogusław Allina died in 1959. | MH