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This is a timeline of Monsanto, ... Key developments at Monsanto 1901–1945: Monsanto is founded as a chemical company. 1945–1960: Monsanto begins producing ...
The Monsanto Company (/ m ɒ n ˈ s æ n t oʊ /) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best-known product is Roundup , a glyphosate -based herbicide , developed in the 1970s.
John Francis Queeny (August 17, 1859 – March 19, 1933) was an American businessman, known for founding Monsanto Chemical Works (later Monsanto) in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1901, with $5,000. He named the company for his wife, Olga Mendez Monsanto.
ORWO Filmfabrik Wolfen (now Chemical Park Bitterfeld-Wolfen). The Wolfen factory was founded by AGFA (Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation) in 1910. By 1925, with AGFA, now part of the industrial conglomerate I.G. Farben, Wolfen, was specialising in film production and the war production of 'VISTRA' synthetic fibre with forced labour. [201]
Monsanto's daughter Olga Méndez Monsanto (1871–1938) was married to John Francis Queeny (1859–1933) of St. Louis, Missouri, who founded the Monsanto Chemical Company, naming it after his wife. [12]
Bayer was founded in 1863 in Barmen as a partnership between dye salesman Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880) and dyer Friedrich Weskott (1821–1876). The company was established as a dyestuffs producer, but the versatility of aniline chemistry led Bayer to expand its business into other areas.
March: Anton Drexler founded a branch of Free Workers' Committee for a Good Peace league in Munich. [5] 17 July: Adolf Hitler saves the life of the 9th Company Commander. 4 August: Adolf Hitler awarded the Iron Cross, 1st Class. 13 October: Adolf Hitler gassed near Ypres. 3 November: Kiel mutiny triggered the German revolution.
On August 3, 1933, Adolf Hitler received Sosthenes Behn (then the CEO of ITT) and his German representative, Henry Mann, in one of his first meetings with US businessmen. [16] [17] [18] [need quotation to verify] In his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Antony C. Sutton claims that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to SS-leader ...