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 Building ( now the Poelzig-Bau ) in Frankfurt / M, Germany, famous for its paternosters

* 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 ).

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

Experiments with Prontosil began in 1932 in the laboratories of Bayer AG, at that time a component of the huge German chemical trust IG Farben.

Run by the Anorgana GmbH, a branch of IG Farben, the plant began production in 1942.

Auschwitz III-Monowitz served as a labor camp for the Buna-Werke factory of the IG Farben concern.

Since 1934, Schrader had been working in a laboratory in Leverkusen to develop new types of insecticides for IG Farben.

World War II-Various Hoechst facilities were bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II Its managers in charge were defendants, as the other IG Farben managers, in the Nuremberg trial against the company for its role in the exploitation of enslaved laborers and for testing drugs on concentration camp prisoners.

Later, he served as Alien Property custodian for the American operations of the German chemical giant I. G. Farben.

-A cheerful companion for all who want to sing hit songs, write lyrics, or compose music ), and in 1972, shortly before her death, her autobiography Der Himmel hat viele Farben ( The Sky has many Colours ) appeared and topped the bestselling list of the German magazine Der Spiegel.

He was a legal counselor to the major German chemical combine I. G. Farben, and was the Assistant Secretary of War from 1941 to 1945, during which he was noted for opposing the nuclear bombing of Japan.

By the 1920s, Norsk Hydro's electric arc-based technology for manufacturing artificial fertilizer was no longer able to compete with the newly developed Haber-Bosch process, and in 1927 the company formed a partnership with the German company IG Farben in order to gain access to this process.

In 1926, Schacht provided funds for the formation of IG Farben.

The firm came under fire during WWII because it had done consulting work for German industrial giant IG Farben.

In 1947, Dondero tried to block the trial of IG Farben executives for war crimes at Nuremberg by withholding funding for the prosecution team before indictments could be handed down.

Farben, establishing production quotas for nitrogen, the main ingredient in fertilizer.

Farben exclusively sell nitrogen in parts of Asia, Europe, and South and Central America, due to declining demand for fertilizer,

Deutsche provided banking facilities for the Gestapo and loaned the funds used to build the Auschwitz camp and the nearby IG Farben facilities.

Farben and Sonia provide high-grade weapons for the killers.

Norwood leaves town with the prostitutes, and the film ends with Farben Oil Company trucks entering the town to drill for oil.

The company had been a major factor already in World War I, when their development of the Haber-Bosch process for nitrogen fixation compensated for Germany's being cut off from the Chilean nitrate trade and allowed IG Farben to produce synthetic nitrate.