BDC supplied a comprehensive range of dyes within a competitive market, its most notable foreign competitors were Du Pont and IG Farben.
Up to 25,000 of the 35,000 prisoners appointed to work for IG Farben in Auschwitz died.
In 1936, while employed by the large German conglomerate IG Farben, he was experimenting with a class of compounds called organophosphates, which killed insects by interrupting their nervous systems.
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The Original board of directors of the BIS included two appointees of Hitler, Walther Funk and Emil Puhl, as well as Herman Schmitz the director of IG Farben and Baron von Schroeder the owner of the J.H. Stein Bank, the bank that held the deposits of the Gestapo.
The use of tabun was opposed by Hitler's Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer, who, in 1943, brought IG Farben's nerve agent expert Otto Ambros to report to Hitler.
Central to the role Schwarz played as commandant was the provision of slave-laborers to the nearby Buna Werke, a synthetic rubber factory owned by the German chemical company IG Farben.
In 1924, they sold the company to two investors: Carl Bosch, chairman of the board of IG Farben, and Dr. Hermann Hummel, who also served on the supervisory board of IG Farben.
DuBois was put in charge of the IG Farben trial at the Nuremberg Military Trials, later writing the seminal account of that trial, The Devil's Chemists.
In 1927, he began researching rocket fuels, working at BASF, then IG Farben, in Ludwigshafen.
Richard von Schnitzler (1855, Köln – 1938), a German banker, nonexecutive board member of IG Farben ∞ Melanie Stein (b. 1858), a daughter of Karl (Carl Martin) Stein (de)
In the area of photography he is known for his works from 1980–2006, primarily very large formats showing famous architectural sites such as the Wittgenstein House, Casa Malaparte, Casa del Fascio, and Hans Poelzig’s IG Farben Building in Frankfurt.
As manager of IG Farben's Leverkusen plant he immediately took up the suggestion that the traditional May Day holiday should instead be celebrated as a new Nazi holiday for industrial excellence.
He spent much of the Second World War in Bratislava as a director of Dynamit-Nobel-Fabrik and other Czechoslovakian chemical companies that had been brought under the IG Farben umbrella by the Nazis.