The History of Bayer

It all starts with a friendship between two men, plenty of natural curiosity and two kitchen stoves. On these, the merchant Friedrich Bayer and the dyer Johann Friedrich Weskott experimented and discovered how to produce the dye Fuchsine. In 1863, they founded the company "Friedr. Bayer et. comp." in Barmen – a 19th-century start-up with tremendous potential.