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Friedrich Bayer

German businessman (1825-1880) · Founders · Died at 54

Friedrich Bayer 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 flourishing city in the early industrialised region of the Wuppertal or Wupper Valley.

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Lived 1825 to 1880 · aged 54