Friedrich Bayer (entrepreneur, 1851)

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Friedrich Bayer (around 1920)

Friedrich Bayer (born October 13, 1851 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ); died June 21, 1920 ) was a German entrepreneur and, as the son of the company's founder, Friedrich Bayer, was the second head of the Elberfeld paint factory, Friedrich Bayer & Co. , today's Bayer AG .

Life

Share of the paint factories vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Comp in Elberfeld on May 1, 1908 with the signature of Friedrich Bayer

Friedrich Bayer was the son of Friedrich and Caroline Juliane Bayer. After completing school, he studied chemistry in Wiesbaden, before starting as a chemist in his father's factory in Elberfeld in 1873 . After four years of activity, he became a partner in the company and head of the chemical department in 1877. In 1881, after the death of his father, he became a technical board member and managing director. Thanks to his organization, there have been significant improvements in dye production. As a chemist, he himself conducted research in a small laboratory and was a close friend of Carl Duisberg, who was ten years his junior . Together with Duisberg and Henry Theodore Böttinger , he led the company to international renown.

He married Anna Wolff (July 16, 1858 to February 14, 1922), after whom one of the Leverkusen workers' colonies was named. Bayer left the Board of Management in 1911, but remained Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board and advised his successor, Duisberg. When Bayer died in the house of his son Richard Bayer in 1920 , exports from Bayer paint factories were at a low point.

Bayer had been a member since 1873 and later an honorary member of the Corps Saxonia Bonn . In 1895 he entered as 10,000. Member of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great men of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures. Sebastian Lux Verlag, Munich 1960, p. 43
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 16/307
  3. ↑ Meeting reports of the district associations - Bergischer Bezirksverein . In: Journal of the Association of German Engineers . tape 39 , 1895, p. 1062 .
personal data
SURNAME Bayer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1920