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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.
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Farben and was
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IG Farben was founded on December 25, 1925, as a merger of the following six companies:
He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.
In 1925 Bosch helped found and was the first head of IG Farben and from 1935 chairman of the board of directors.
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.
In 1916, the Hoechst AG was one of the co-founders of IG Farben, a pressure group of Germany's chemicals industry to gain industrial power during and after World War I.
1951-Hoechst AG was re-founded on December 7 in Frankfurt when IG Farben was split into its founder companies.
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 1937, the synthetic fuel plant Hydrierwerke Pölitz AG was founded by IG Farben, Rhenania-Ossag, and Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft.
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.
His political activities caught the attention of his employer and in early 1932 he was laid off by IG Farben.
The IG Farben building was also named after him from 1975 to 1995.
He was appointed the director of Bayer's Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology, where he continued the studies of Josef Klarer and Fritz Mietzsch, based on works by Paul Ehrlich, to use dyes, at that time a major product of IG Farben, as antibiotics.
Farben and funding
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 and Nazi
Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, IG Farben cooperated with the Nazi regime, profiting from guaranteed volumes and prices, and from the slave labor provided by the government's concentration camps.
IG Farben also achieved notoriety owing to its production of Zyklon-B, the lethal gas used in Nazi extermination camps.
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.
The IG Farben Leuna works was headed by Heinrich Bütefisch and was Nazi Germany's second largest synthetic oil plant and second biggest chemical operation.
Farben ( the chemical manufacturer of ‘ Zyklon-B ’ poison gas used in the Nazi death camps ) and its associated Nazi-era corporations.
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 IG Farben Trial was the second of three trials of leading industrialists of Nazi Germany for their conduct during the Nazi regime.
" ( IG Farben was the German chemical firm that produced Zyklon B gas used in Nazi extermination camps ).
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.
Farben, the giant German chemical firm that produced Zyklon B gas used in Nazi extermination camps.
Farben and also
Affidavits that Rudolf Höss had made whilst held prisoner in Nuremberg were also used at Pohl & IG Farben trials.
Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names of Farben, Gramm and The Exposures.
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.
IG Farben also developed processes for synthesizing gasoline and rubber from coal, and thereby contributed much to Germany's ability to wage a war despite having been cut off from all major oil fields.
Warburg was also on the board of a major industrial conglomerate, IG Farben, which had been originally formed by the Rothschilds in 1925, together with other foreign Anglo-American interests.
Farben and building
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.
* 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.
Farben building.
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.
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.
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