During the Second World War Norsk Hydro collaborated with IG Farben and Nordische Aluminium Aktiengesellschaft ( Nordag ) in building new aluminium and magnesium plants in support of the German war effort.

The IG Farben building was also named after him from 1975 to 1995.

* History of the IG Farben building

The building was erected in 1941 by the IG Farben conglomerate

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.

In 1972 an attack on the American headquarters in the I. G Farben building was carried out by the Red Army Fraction, in which a soldier died.

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.

Described as ' a monument to German ingenuity and might ', it is perhaps with some irony that the IG Farben building is used by Tourneur to illustrate this dualistic contrast ; it was here that many of the German ' tools of war ' were developed, including Zyklon B gas.

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.

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

Hydrothermal synthetic emeralds have been attributed to IG Farben, Nacken, Tairus, and others, but the first satisfactory commercial product was that of Johann Lechleitner of Innsbruck, Austria, which appeared on the market in the 1960s.

Competing with DuPont and IG Farben, the new company produced chemicals, explosives, fertilisers, insecticides, dyestuffs, non-ferrous metals, and paints.

All of the compounds in this class were discovered and synthesized during or soon after World War II, led by Dr. Gerhard Schrader ( later under the employment of IG Farben ).

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.

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

The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben.

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

Farben in Leverkusen, Germany.

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

To raise capital, Degussa split its controlling interest of Degesch with IG Farben in 1930: both companies held a 42. 5 % share in Degesch, with the remaining 15 % held by the Th.

The manufacture of Zyklon B was handled by Dessauer Werke für Zucker and Chemische Werke, which acquired the stabilizer from IG Farben, the warning agent from Schering AG and the prussic acid from Dessauer Schlempe and assembled them into the final product.

Farben plastic recording tape.

He was employed as a food chemist by a branch of the giant IG Farben company, based in Leverkusen in the Ruhr.

IG Farben was a German chemical industry conglomerate.

During its heyday IG Farben was the largest chemical company in the world and the fourth largest overall industrial concern, after General Motors, U. S. Steel and Standard Oil ( New Jersey ).

IG Farben was involved in numerous war crimes during World War II.

Zur musik in der Drei Farben: triologie von Krzysztof Kieślowski.

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.

* 1925 As part of the consolidation of the German chemical industry, Agfa became part of IG Farben.

They dragged him inside the building.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.

They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

The building shook, setting the lantern to swaying, and the buckskin to pitching again.

All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

Faulkner traces, in his vast and overpowering saga of Yoknapatawpha County, the gradual changes which seep into the South, building layer upon layer of minute, subtle innovation which eventually tend largely to hide the Old Way.

A pervading quality of free lyricism and a building from turns close to the ground towards jumps into the air gives the work its central focus.

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

`` Cut off every building at the seventh floor.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

Another beautiful building is the Propylaea, the entrance gate of the Acropolis.

The movement toward European unity has been expressed in two currents: federalism and functionalism, one looking to the constitution of a United States of Europe, the other building on wartime precedents of practical cooperation for the solution of specific problems.

It is very much a matter of building the foundations of community.

Across the way from the apartment building is a ruined house, shot to hell that day in 1849, and left that way as a memorial.

The inference has been too widely accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades across Berlin the free world must acquiesce in dismemberment of that living city.

He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

Cover the whole building, bury us all, by nightfall.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Maybe yes, maybe no, but you can observe everything from the roof of a barrack we are building ''.