Friedrich Bayer (born June 6 1825 in Wuppertal; died May 6 1880 in Würzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the paint factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld.

His son, Karl Bayer, developed the Bayer process for chemical extraction of aluminum from bauxite.

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German businesspeople | 1825 births | 1880 deaths

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