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Relocation of Production Processes

When
1866
Where
BASF site (locality not named in sources)
Part of
Founding of BASF and move to Ludwigshafen, April 1865

Dye production processes were moved to the BASF site in 1866, following the initial founding in Mannheim.

Although Engelhorn is credited as the founder in Ludwigshafen, the specific move of headquarters to the Hemshof district on 21 April 1865 is not supported by the provided passages. The sources indicate that the production processes were relocated to the BASF site in 1866.

Sources

  1. BASF Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-23
  2. Friedrich Engelhorn Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-01

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.