Pharmaceutical Combine GERMED
The Pharmaceutical Combine Germed was a group of state- owned companies of the GDR founded in 1979 and dissolved in 1989 . Almost all pharmaceutical manufacturers in the GDR belonged to the combine .
prehistory
In 1961 the VEB Chemische Werke Radebeul and the Arzneimittelwerk Dresden merged to form the largest pharmaceutical company in the GDR. In 1970 the Dresden pharmaceutical plant was given the status of a combine to which numerous pharmaceutical companies in the GDR were assigned. The research and production focus was on the synthesis of highly effective cardiovascular and psychotropic drugs, phytochemistry and therapeutics as well as biochemistry and microbiology.
history
In 1979 the Dresden pharmaceuticals factory became the parent company of the newly founded “VEB Pharmazeutisches Kombinat GERMED, Dresden”, to which almost all pharmaceutical manufacturers in the GDR belonged. The following were incorporated as operational parts: the Aropharmwerk Riesa, Philopharm Quedlinburg, ISIS-Chemie Zwickau, Arzneimittelwerk Leipzig and ten other plants belonged to the combine itself. It was directly subordinate to the Ministry of Chemical Industry.
The Drugs Plant Dresden was the center of drug research in the GDR within the combine. It had an outstanding position for the entire Eastern European economic area. The procedural development tasks lay with the GERMED combine and its specialized pharmaceutical companies. At the end of the 1980s there were 13 parts of the company with around 3,600 employees.
By the time the combine was dissolved in 1989, 27 original developments had been brought onto the market. The focus was on the synthesis of psychotropic drugs, biochemicals as well as cardiovascular and cardiovascular drugs.
Through its combine operations Jenapharm and the Dresden pharmaceuticals plant, Germed was involved in the production of drugs that were also abused for state-prescribed doping in competitive GDR sports .
The chemical engineer Winfried Noack was General Manager of Germed from 1979 to 1989.
Germed as a trademark
The GERMED brand, registered since 1964, was also the combine’s brand name for pharmaceutical products. In export terms, GERMED stood for “GERman MEDicaments”. The foreign trade company "GERMED Export-Import", which was integrated into the combine in 1980, was responsible for import and export. This brand was marketed on perimeter advertising in the Aztec stadium at the final between Brazil and Italy at the football World Cup in Mexico in 1970.
See also
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- "GDR manual, drug supply", Federal Min. for inner German districts, Cologne 1985
- "GDR Handbook, Chemical Industry", Federal Min. for inner German districts, Cologne 1985
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Latzel : State doping: the VEB Jenapharm in the sports system of the GDR. , P. 170
- ↑ General directors tell - narrative salons: Winfried Noack (07.11.2013) Retrieved February 15, 2019 .