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Friedrich Bayer

1825 - 1880

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Friedrich Bayer (born Friedrich Beyer, 6 June 1825 in Barmen now Wuppertal – 6 May 1880 in Würzburg) 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. Friedrich Bayer changed the spelling of his surname from Beyer in his early twenties, due to the publicity gained by a fraudulent merchant from Leipzig bearing the same name. Friedrich Beyer from Barmen feared that the bad reputation of his namesake could damage his business and consequently changed his surname to Bayer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Bayer is the 340th most popular businessperson (down from 274th in 2019), the 3,042nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,527th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Friedrich Bayer ranks 340 out of 847. Before him are Félicien Kabuga, Martin Winterkorn, Joseph Oller, Pavel Durov, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, and Linda Yaccarino. After him are Lamine Diack, Karl Wittgenstein, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Siegfried Bing, and Arkady Rotenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, Friedrich Bayer ranks 41. Before him are Émile Ollivier, Đuro Daničić, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Iwakura Tomomi, Camilo Castelo Branco, and Julius Oppert. After him are Giovanni Fattori, Bernardo Guimarães, Alexander Mozhaysky, Jules Barbier, Benedetto Cairoli, and Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani. Among people deceased in 1880, Friedrich Bayer ranks 31. Before him are Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Raden Saleh, August Karl von Goeben, Jules Favre, Jules Antoine Lissajous, and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau. After him are Lucretia Mott, Napoléon Henri Reber, Alphonse Pénaud, Sunanda Kumariratana, Robert Fortune, and Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Bayer ranks 3,044 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (1861), Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt (1898), Karl Philipp Moritz (1756), and Hugo Eckener (1868). After him are Wolfgang Iser (1926), Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1425), Adolph Frank (1834), and Konrad Duden (1829).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Friedrich Bayer ranks 36. Before him are Herbert Hainer (1954), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Jawed Karim (1979), Hans Riegel (1923), and Martin Winterkorn (1947). After him are Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Siegfried Bing (1838), Bertha Krupp (1886), Karl Rapp (1882), and Theo Albrecht (1922).

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