Haarmann & Reimer

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The record

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Name

Haarmann & Reimer

documented

par Tiemann et la firme Haarmann et Reimer, par traitement de la Coniférine

PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Kind

aroma-chemical company

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the grouping on /houses: what the firm was chiefly known for in the sources read

confidence B

Founded

1874 (year)

documented

The original founders of Haarmann & Reimer discover a method of synthesizing the aromatic vanillin.

SYMRISE-HISTORY · Symrise · read 2026-10-08

the entry of Symrise’s timeline headed 1874

confidence B

Founders

• Wilhelm Haarmann, with the chemist Ferdinand Tiemann
  documented

  Diese Darstellung führte zur Gründung einer Vanillinfabrik in Holzminden (heute Firma Haarmann und Reimer).

  NDB-HAARMANN · Günther Kerstein · read 2026-10-08

  the preceding sentences describe Haarmann and Tiemann turning coniferin into vanillin

  confidence A

Places

• Holzminden, Germany (works)
  documented

  Vanillinfabrik in Holzminden

  NDB-HAARMANN · Günther Kerstein · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

• Paris, a branch opened in 1878 with Georges de Laire (branch)
  documented

  gründete 1878 mit Georges de Laire (1836–1908) in Paris einen Filialbetrieb

  NDB-TIEMANN · Christoph Meinel · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

Documented work

• vanillin · from coniferin, by the process patented in 1874 and worked at Holzminden
  documented

  par Tiemann et la firme Haarmann et Reimer, par traitement de la Coniférine

  PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

• Ionone and the woody-violet synthetics, 1893 · the ionones, made from 1893 to Tiemann’s specifications and patented by the firm
  documented

  Seit 1893 wurde auch das Ionon, der synthetische Veilchenduft, nach den Angaben Tiemanns, der Berater der Firma blieb, hergestellt.

  NDB-HAARMANN · Günther Kerstein · read 2026-10-08

  confidence A

• Isoeugenol · made by heating eugenol, under a German patent of 1890 (No. 57808)
  documented

  In 1890 Haarmann arid Reimer (German patent No. 57808) recommended heating the eugenol

  PARRY-AL · Ernest (1925). Parry · read 2026-10-08

  “arid” is the OCR of “and”

  confidence B

What it became

• acquired by Bayer AG (1954)
  documented

  buy Haarmannn & Reimer, which continue to operate as an entity

  SYMRISE-HISTORY · Symrise · read 2026-10-08

  the entry of Symrise’s timeline headed 1954; “Haarmannn” as spelled there

  confidence B

• merged into Symrise, with Dragoco (2003)
  documented

  Symrise is forged with the merger of Haarmann & Reimer and Dragoco.

  SYMRISE-HISTORY · Symrise · read 2026-10-08

  confidence B

Today

no longer a company of its own: part of Symrise since 2003 (checked 2026-10-08)

documented

Symrise is forged with the merger of Haarmann & Reimer and Dragoco.

SYMRISE-HISTORY · Symrise · read 2026-10-08

confidence B

Wikidata

Q1566569

documented

"qid": "Q1566569"

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Haarmann & Reimer)

confidence A

Where the sources disagree

• 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. (SYMRISE-HISTORY, NDB-TIEMANN)

Sources

1. NDB-HAARMANN · Günther Kerstein. “Haarmann, Gustav Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm”. Neue Deutsche Biographie 7 (1966), p. 372 — Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz24911.html · read 2026-10-08 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (the Neue Deutsche Biographie’s notice for its articles) (quoted, not reproduced)
2. NDB-TIEMANN · Christoph Meinel. “Tiemann, Johann Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand”. Neue Deutsche Biographie 26 (2016), pp. 264-265 — Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz34655.html · read 2026-10-08 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (the Neue Deutsche Biographie’s notice for its articles) (quoted, not reproduced)
3. PARRY-AL · Ernest J. Parry. “Parry's Cyclopaedia of Perfumery, vol. A-L”. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1925 (Internet Archive, Digital Library of India scan). archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.146884 · read 2026-10-08 · no licence stated (the Internet Archive record gives no rights statement; published 1925) (quoted, not reproduced)
4. PFAP-1925 · La parfumerie française et l’art dans la présentation. Paris: La Revue des marques de la parfumerie et de la savonnerie, 1925 (the houses’ own notices, with essays on the trade). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (Paris) copy, Internet Archive item BIUSante_pharma_res008536. archive.org/details/BIUSante_pharma_res008536 · read 2026-10-08 · Licence ouverte / Open licence Etalab (the rights statement of the BIU Santé digitisation, as the Internet Archive item states it)
5. SYMRISE-HISTORY · Symrise. “Our history”, the company’s own account. www.symrise.com/our-company/our-history/ · read 2026-10-08 · all rights reserved; no reuse licence (quoted, not reproduced)
6. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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