Friedrich Bayer

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Friedrich Bayer

Friedrich Bayer (June 6, 1825 in Barmen now to Wuppertal – May 6, 1880 in Würzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the dyestuff factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld, a florishing city in the early industrialised region of the Wuppertal or Wupper Valley.

Friedrich Bayer grave site, Wuppertal

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