Bayer´s anniversary tour gives a fascinating and informative insight into how research and science enrich our daily lives.

The Bayer airship will lift off from all continents.

The Evolution of the Bayer Global Brand

Friedrich Bayer

Johann Friedrich Weskott

At right: company headquarters; at center: the home of Friedrich Bayer sen. (c. 1870)

The oldest known company photo taken in 1863 shows workers at the Barmen site near the Heckinghauser bridge. Among those pictured is Heinrich Ritter (probably at right), the first journeyman employed by company founder Friedrich Bayer sen..

August Siller (c. 1885)

Offices of the Hudson River Aniline Color Works, Albany, New York (1908)

Administration building in Moscow (1902)

The company fire brigade at Elberfeld (c. 1897)

First page of the Memorandum of Association of "Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co."

First patent awarded to "Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co."

Phenacetin production in Elberfeld (1888)

A view of the Leverkusen site with buildings of the old C. Leverkus alizarine red factory in the foreground. These were purchased by Bayer in 1891 and later used for purifying anthracene. At left on the bank of the river is the narrow gauge railway station.

The Kekulé Library (c. 1910)

View of the Elberfeld site at the end of the 19th century

Certificate from the Imperial Patents Office registering Aspirin™ as a protected trademark

The first training workshop in building J 2 at the Leverkusen site (1901)

Female employees from the pharmaceuticals warehouse doing exercises