Boehringer Mannheim

Former German pharmaceutical company, founded in 1817 by Christian Friedrich Boehringer as drugstore in Stuttgart, which developed to a pharmaceutical company and Christoph Heinrich Boehringer moved it in 1872 -->C. F. Boehringer & Soehne GmbH Mannheim. In 1892 the family Engelhorn took over the company. In 1997 it was sold to Hoffmann-La Roche AG. ! ! ! Another son of C.H. Boehringer, Albert, also built a chemical factory in 1885: Boehringer Ingelheim or Boehringer Sohn. .