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Hoechst

Farbwerke Meister Lucius et Brüning in Höchst am Main (after 1880, Farbwerke Hoechst) was one of the large German chemical firms that joined together to form the I.G. Farben concern in 1925. Farbwerke Hoechst chemists, engineers, and managers played a decisive role in the Nazis' military buildup policies. The managers in charge were defendants in 1947 in the I.G. Farben Trial in Nuremberg. After its reestablishment in 1951, Hoechst AG was one of the world's leading producers of chemicals. In 2004, it merged with sanofi-aventis.