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1925
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1925
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1925: Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co. merges with other companies to form I.G. Farbenindustrie AG. Leverkusen becomes the main production center of the I.G.’s Lower Rhine operating consortium. As Germany’s most important chemical company, I.G. Farbenindustrie also becomes involved in events during the Third Reich. After the Second World War, the Allies seize and subsequently break up the I.G. Farben. (English)
1951
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In 1945 IG Farben came under Allied authority; its industries (along with those of other German firms) were to be dismantled or dismembered with the stated intent “to render impossible any future threat to Germany’s neighbours or to world peace.” In the western zones of Germany, however, especially as the Cold War advanced, this disposition toward liquidation lessened. Eventually the Western powers and West Germans agreed to divide IG Farben into just three independent units: Hoechst, Bayer, and BASF (the first two being refounded in 1951; BASF in 1952). (English)