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 "id": "haarmann-reimer",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "NDB-HAARMANN",
  "NDB-TIEMANN",
  "PARRY-AL",
  "PFAP-1925",
  "SYMRISE-HISTORY",
  "WD-1"
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 "name": {
  "value": "Haarmann & Reimer",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "PFAP-1925",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:14",
  "quote": "par Tiemann et la firme Haarmann et Reimer, par traitement de la Coniférine",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "kind": "aroma-chemical company",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1874",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1874,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "SYMRISE-HISTORY",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SYMRISE-HISTORY.txt:11",
  "quote": "The original founders of Haarmann & Reimer discover a method of synthesizing the aromatic vanillin.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "the entry of Symrise’s timeline headed 1874"
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "Wilhelm Haarmann, with the chemist Ferdinand Tiemann",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-HAARMANN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-HAARMANN.txt:7",
   "quote": "Diese Darstellung führte zur Gründung einer Vanillinfabrik in Holzminden (heute Firma Haarmann und Reimer).",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": "the preceding sentences describe Haarmann and Tiemann turning coniferin into vanillin"
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Holzminden, Germany",
   "role": "works",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-HAARMANN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-HAARMANN.txt:7",
   "quote": "Vanillinfabrik in Holzminden",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "place": "Paris, a branch opened in 1878 with Georges de Laire",
   "role": "branch",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-TIEMANN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-TIEMANN.txt:7",
   "quote": "gründete 1878 mit Georges de Laire (1836–1908) in Paris einen Filialbetrieb",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "from coniferin, by the process patented in 1874 and worked at Holzminden",
   "molecule": "vanillin",
   "event": "tiemann-haarmann-vanillin-1874",
   "year": 1874,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PFAP-1925",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:14",
   "quote": "par Tiemann et la firme Haarmann et Reimer, par traitement de la Coniférine",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "the ionones, made from 1893 to Tiemann’s specifications and patented by the firm",
   "event": "ionone-1893",
   "year": 1893,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "NDB-HAARMANN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/NDB-HAARMANN.txt:9",
   "quote": "Seit 1893 wurde auch das Ionon, der synthetische Veilchenduft, nach den Angaben Tiemanns, der Berater der Firma blieb, hergestellt.",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "made by heating eugenol, under a German patent of 1890 (No. 57808)",
   "molecule": "isoeugenol",
   "year": 1890,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PARRY-AL",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PARRY-AL.txt:7",
   "quote": "In 1890 Haarmann arid Reimer (German patent No. 57808) recommended heating the eugenol",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "“arid” is the OCR of “and”"
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "acquired by",
   "name": "Bayer AG (1954)",
   "year": 1954,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SYMRISE-HISTORY",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SYMRISE-HISTORY.txt:12",
   "quote": "buy Haarmannn & Reimer, which continue to operate as an entity",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the entry of Symrise’s timeline headed 1954; “Haarmannn” as spelled there"
  },
  {
   "relation": "merged into",
   "name": "Symrise, with Dragoco (2003)",
   "house": "symrise",
   "year": 2003,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SYMRISE-HISTORY",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SYMRISE-HISTORY.txt:9",
   "quote": "Symrise is forged with the merger of Haarmann & Reimer and Dragoco.",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "no longer a company of its own: part of Symrise since 2003",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "SYMRISE-HISTORY",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SYMRISE-HISTORY.txt:9",
  "quote": "Symrise is forged with the merger of Haarmann & Reimer and Dragoco.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Haarmann & Reimer. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "The founding year: Symrise’s own timeline puts the foundation in 1874, the year of the vanillin patent; the Neue Deutsche Biographie dates Haarmann’s vanillin factory at Holzminden to 1875.",
   "sources": [
    "SYMRISE-HISTORY",
    "NDB-TIEMANN"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "The Holzminden firm built on Wilhelm Haarmann and Ferdinand Tiemann’s vanillin from coniferin, patented in 1874; it made the ionones from 1893 and became part of Symrise in 2003.",
  "body": []
 },
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   "CC0",
   "no licence stated",
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  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
  "single_source": null,
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 "wikidata_qid": {
  "value": "Q1566569",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q1566569.json:2",
  "quote": "\"qid\": \"Q1566569\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Haarmann & Reimer)"
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