Background
Deutsch was born on March 16, 1828 to a Jewish family.
Deutsch was born on March 16, 1828 to a Jewish family.
From early age Deutsch was active entrepreneur, in Zagreb he had a storage company for timber and firewood sale. Deutsch bought, in 1910, 50 acres of land from the noble municipality Turopolje. On that land, in 1911, Deutsch founded the steam sawmill in Turopolje which he named "Paropilana Filipa Deutscha sinova".
He immediately began to lift the objects for the sawmill, houses for workers and specialists which were brought from Zagreb and other Croatian regions.
Houses were built in a rows and were called "Kolonija" (The Colony). In June 1911 Deutsch sawmill started to produce oak sawn wood, mostly from the Turopolje forest, with the capacity of 40,000 m3.
Deutsch built and spread the sawmill as production expanded. He also built about 10 kilometers of railways for the Burdelj and Turopoljski lug.
At the peak of success Deutsch sawmill employed about 600 workers.
Deutsch workers were treated fairly with eight-hour working day, which was a rarity at the time, with supplied hot meals, decent salaries and housing for every worker Deutsch was also a great philanthropist who often aided the poor. In Zagreb, twice a year, he would donated two to three wagons of wood during the winter.
Foreign his contribution on the development of Turopolje region Deutsch was awarded with the title place
(plemeniti (Croatian) = noble (English)) Maceljski per Macelj forest. Deutsch died in Zagreb on May 6, 1919.
He was buried in the family cript at the Mirogoj Cemetery.