move Bayer into pharmaceuticals. He supported Gerhard Domagk's eventually successful efforts to discover the first broadly effective antibiotic, Prontisil. Carl Duisberg Society The Carl Duisberg Society (Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft) was founded in 1949 and was helping development aid with education programmes for people, especially from developing countries. From 1949 until its merger with the German Society for international Development (Deutschen Stiftung für internationale Entwicklung) in 2002 to form the InWEnt (Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH) 300,000 people took part in the programs of the society. References External links Leverkusen who's who Duisberg from Bayer AG Biography of Duisberg Hoechst: The toxic brewmasters 1861 births 1935 deaths 19th-century German chemists German chemical engineers 20th-century German businesspeople German industrialists German chemical industry people People from the Rhine Province IG Farben people Bayer people Scientists from Wuppertal Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia 20th-century German chemists