Barmen is a former industrial metropolis of the region of Bergisches Land , Germany , which merged with four other towns in 1929 to form the city of Wuppertal .
4-653: 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
8-484: Is the eastern part of Barmen, and Unterbarmen (Lower Barmen) the western part. One of its claims to fame is the fact that Friedrich Engels , co-author of The Communist Manifesto , was born in Barmen. Another of its claims is the fact that Bayer AG was founded there by Friedrich Bayer and master dyer Johann Friedrich Weskott with the express purpose to erect and operate a dyeworks . The asteroid 118173 Barmen
12-638: The neighbouring town of Elberfeld founded the first electric suspended monorail tramway system, the Schwebebahn floating tram . Barmen was a pioneering centre for both the early Industrial Revolution on the European mainland, and for the socialist movement and its theory. It was the location of one of the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany , KZ Wuppertal-Barmen , later better known as Kemna concentration camp. Oberbarmen (Upper Barmen)
16-454: 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. This German business-related biographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Barmen Barmen, together with
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