In December 1994, as part of the realignment of United States Armed Forces, V Corps moved from the IG Farben Building to Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg, severing a forty-three year tie with Frankfurt.

IG Farben Building at Campus Westend

The dominant feature of this campus is the “ IG Farben ” Building by the architect Hans Poelzig.

Headquarters of the V Corps at the IG Farben Building: The Commando Petra Schelm of the Rote Armee Fraktion killed U. S. Officer Paul Bloomquist and wounded thirteen in a bombing-attack.

Farben Building, completed in 1931 as the administration building for IG Farben in Frankfurt am Main, now known as the Poelzig Building at Goethe University.

Farben Building in Frankfurt

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In 1930 Hans Poelzig erected the IG Farben Building.

After World War II the IG Farben Building became the main location of the American armed forces in Europe.

Set in Allied-occupied Germany, it was shot on location in post-World War II Frankfurt-am-Main ( with exterior and interior shots of the IG Farben Building and its paternoster elevators ) and Berlin.

' The level of destruction is further enforced on the viewer with scenes filmed inside the IG Farben Building ; this was perhaps the first time images of its exterior and interior had been so publicly broadcast.

1951-Hoechst AG was re-founded on December 7 in Frankfurt when IG Farben was split into its founder companies.

Farben recording tape from a German radio station at Bad Nauheim ( near Frankfurt ).

** IG Farben Building-former corporate headquarters of IG Farben in Frankfurt, Germany

Friedrich Matthias of IG Farben / BASF developed the recording tape, including the oxide, the binder, and the backing material.

In World War II, the Bayer ( Standard Oil / IG Farben ) plant was bombed on August 22, 1943, and during the Battle of Berlin ( air ) on November 19 / 20 and December 10 / 11, 1943.

After years of fruitless trial-and-error work on hundreds of dyes, a team led by physician / researcher Gerhard Domagk ( working under the general direction of Farben executive Heinrich Hoerlein ) finally found one that worked: a red dye synthesized by Bayer chemist Josef Klarer that had remarkable effects on stopping some bacterial infections in mice.

The German firm IG Farben, which was a partial owner of Norsk Hydro, had ordered / month ; Norsk Hydro ′ s maximum production rate was then limited to / month.

* Ross, Marjorie 2004 El secreto encanto de la KGB: las cinco vidas de Iósif Griguliévich, editorial Farben / Norma, Costa Rica

* Klänge und Farben / Sounds and Colours für Klavier op.

The first sulfonamide and first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic, Prontosil, was developed by a research team led by Gerhard Domagk in 1932 at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate in Germany.

This first class of nerve agents, the G-Series, was accidentally discovered in Germany on December 23, 1936 by a research team headed by Dr. Gerhard Schrader working for IG Farben.

The plant was operated by Anorgana GmbH, a subsidiary of IG Farben, as were all other chemical weapon agent production plants in Germany at the time.

* December 25 – IG Farben formed by merger of six chemical companies in Germany.

Farben in Leverkusen, Germany.

Shortly before his death in 1934, the US Congress had been investigating his work in Nazi Germany on behalf of the controversial company IG Farben.

After the war his citizenship was called into question because of his collaboration with IG Farben, resulting in his departure from Germany to work as an adviser in Italy, Turkey, Switzerland and Spain.

Farben Industries in Germany began to search for lubricants with the properties of natural oils but without the tendencies to gel or gum when used in an engine environment.

* August 22-23 ( overnight ) – Bomber Command sends 462 aircraft to attack the IG Farben factory at Leverkusen, Germany.

* January 7 – 502 Eighth Air Force bombers escorted by 571 fighters bomb the IG Farben plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany, with the loss of 19 bombers and six fighters.

* December 25-IG Farben file a patent application in Germany for the medical application of the first sulfonamide drug, Sulfonamidochrysoidine ( KI-730 ; which will be marketed as Prontosil ), following Gerhard Domagk's laboratory demonstration of its properties as an antibiotic.

* December 23-The first nerve agent, Tabun, is discovered ( accidentally ) by a research team headed by Dr Gerhard Schrader of IG Farben in Germany.

Schrader grew up in Bortfeld, near Wendeburg, Germany, studied chemistry at TU Braunschweig, and was later employed at the Bayer AG division of IG Farben.

It was discovered in 1934 by Fritz Schloffer and Otto Scherer who were from IG Farben Company, Germany.

It was the first of three trials of leading industrialists of Nazi Germany ; the two others were the IG Farben Trial and the Krupp Trial.

The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al., also known as the IG Farben Trial, was the sixth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U. S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany ( Nuremberg ) after the end of World War II.

The IG Farben Trial was the second of three trials of leading industrialists of Nazi Germany for their conduct during the Nazi regime.

The controlling interest of this entity rested with IG Farben in Germany.

On the eve of World War II, IG Farben, the German chemical conglomerate was the largest manufacturing enterprise in the world and exercised extraordinary economic and political clout in the Nazi Germany.

Prontosil, the first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic ( with a relatively broad effect against Gram-positive cocci but not against enterobacteria ), was developed in the 1930s by a research team at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate in Germany.

Farben was crucially instrumental in funding the rise to power of the Nazi Party, and also in building up the industrial and war-making capabilities of Germany once the Nazis were in power while simultaneously attempting to restrict industrial production materials to countries marked for invasion by Nazi Germany, all of this to such a degree that all German board members other than Max Warburg were charged after World War II as war criminals.

In 1926, IG Farben entered into a non-competition arrangement with Jersey Standard for oil and chemicals while agreeing to cooperate on the development of synthetic rubber ( though Jersey Standard later came under fire from the U. S. federal government because of evidence that the Germany company was impeding its progress in this crucial area ).