Organization
I. G. Farben
German chemical combine; party to the 1929 agreements with Standard Oil of New Jersey.
- Also known as
- IG Farben, I.G. Farbenindustrie
- Wikidata
- Q156152
- The Meeting of 20 February26 scenes
- Who Sold What to Whom?20 scenes
- How are I. G. Farben and … connected?
- funded Adolf Hitler Spende (12.7M RM) 1933–1945
Its agreements with Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) are the subject of the Standard Oil–I. G. Farben agreements of 1929.
Connections 10
people who worked here
- Georg von Schnitzler member of the managing board (Vorstand) Primary record 1
owns a stake in
funded
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Adolf Hitler Spende
1933–1945
12.7M RM
Scholarship & press
3
Roth’s total through the end of the war, from the card index of IG Farben’s Central Committee.
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Election fund of February 1933
1 Mar 1933
400,000 RM
Primary record
45
The ledger printed at Nuremberg has this line. Karl Heinz Roth (Wollheim Memorial) writes that IG paid 400,000 to the party and 100,000 to Papen. Georg von Schnitzler swore in 1945 that he did not know at the time what IG had paid.
involved in
- IG Farben Trial its officials were the defendants Scholarship & press 6
- Meeting of 20 February 1933 four members of its board were invited Primary record 1
- Truman Committee hearings on rubber, 1942 the German partner whose agreements were examined Primary record 7
- Standard Oil and the war in Europe, 1939–1941 the German partner in the 1939 Hague arrangement Primary record 7
- Standard Oil–I. G. Farben agreements of 1929 party to the agreements Primary record 7
includes
- IG Farben’s Auschwitz plant (Monowitz) Scholarship & press 6
Timeline 2 dates
- 1933–1945 I. G. Farben funded Adolf Hitler Spende
- 1 Mar 1933 I. G. Farben funded Election fund of February 1933
Proof 7 sources
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Affidavit of Georg von Schnitzler, 10 November 1945 (document EC-439), Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, 10 Nov 1945.
Primary record
I, Georg von Schnitzler, a member of the Vorstand of I.G. Farben, make the following deposition under oath
4 members of the Vorstand of I.G. Farben including Dr. Bosch, the head of the Vorstand, and myself were asked by the office of the president of the Reichstag to attend a meeting in his house.
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Judgment in the IG Farben case, p. 1168 (Poison Gas; Degesch), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VIII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy), 29 Jul 1948.
Primary record
in which Farben had a 42.5 percent interest
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I.G. Farben’s Adaptation to the Nazi Regime from 1933 on (after Karl Heinz Roth), Wollheim Memorial.
Scholarship & press
12.7 million RM to the “Adolf Hitler-Fund for the German Economy”
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Viking, New York, 2007; quotes read from the text of the Penguin e-book, ISBN 978-1-101-56495-0, chapter 4), Viking, 2007.
Scholarship & press
The largest individual donations came from IG Farben (400,000 Reichsmarks)
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Entries in the account "National Trusteeship" in the files of Delbrueck, Schickler and Co. (document NI-391), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy).
Primary record
IG. Farbenindustrie A.G. Frankfurt/M Mar. 1 400,000.00
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NMT Case 6: USA vs. Carl Krauch, et al., Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project.
Scholarship & press
The twenty-three defendants were all officials of the "I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft," a large German conglomerate of chemical firms.
Monowitz (Farben's buna plant at Auschwitz, with its own camp)
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Investigation of the National Defense Program: Hearings before a Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, United States Senate, Part 11 (Rubber), March-April 1942, U.S. Senate (scan on the Internet Archive), 1942.
Primary record
Nevertheless, these arrangements were not entered into with any desire to help Germany. The sole motive was an attempt on the part of the Standard Oil to get a protected market, to eliminate independent competition, and, finally, to restrict world production in order to maintain that control.
it is impossible to doubt that The Hague Memorandum is anything but a device for the continuation of the conspiracy, at least through the war between Germany and Great Britain.
dated November 9, 1929, between I. G. Farben, S. I. G. Co., Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey)
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