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Publisher: Giesecke
I.G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft: Stock certificate, denomination 200 Reichsmark, issued in 1925.
Ornate border with vignettes of sevral companies at the left part: Friedrich Bayer, Meister Lucius, BASF……
Size: 11,6 x 8,2 inches, very fine condition. ( Small glue remnants at reverse).
I.G. Farbenindustrie AG was a German chemical industry conglomerate. Its name is taken from Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG (lit. Community of interest of the dye industry).
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The company was formed in 1925 from a number of major companies that had been working together closely since World War I. During its heyday IG Farben was the fourth-largest company in the world, after General Motors, US Steel and Standard Oil. During the planning of the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, IG Farben cooperated closely with Nazi officials and directed which chemical plants should be secured and delivered to IG Farben.
In 1941, an investigation exposed a "marriage" cartel between John D. Rockefeller's United States-based Standard Oil Co. and I.G. Farben. It also brought new evidence concerning complex price and marketing agreements between DuPont, a major investor in and producer of leaded gasoline, U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. and their subsidiary, Cuba Distilling Co.
IG Farben built a factory for producing synthetic oil and rubber in Auschwitz, which was the beginning of SS activity and camps in this location during the Holocaust. At its peak in 1944, this factory made use of 83,000 slave laborers. The pesticide Zyklon B, for which IG Farben held the patent and which had IG Farben managers in its Managing Committee. |
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