The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (translation: German Corporation for Pest control), in short Degesch, is a German chemical corporation, Degesch had the patent of the infamous Zyklon B, was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in which country in the early 1920s?
Degesch The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (translation: German Corporation for Pest control), in short Degesch, is a German chemical corporation. Degesch produces pesticides used against weeds and insects. Degesch had the patent of the infamous Zyklon B, a pesticide that was used to execute people in gas chambers of German extermination camps during the Holocaust. Through the firms Tesch & Stabenow GmbH (Testa) and Heerdt-Linger (Heli) Degesch sold the poisonous gas Zyklon B to the German Army and the Schutzstaffel, abbreviation SS.
German Investment Corporation Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) translates into German Investment and Development Corporation. DEG is a subsidiary of KfW. It was founded in Cologne in September 1962 as a federally owned company. Its headquarters is located in Cologne. In 2012, DEG employed a staff of more than 473, both in Germany and abroad. DEG made financial commitments with a total of EUR 1.33 billion in 2012 and total assets were at EUR 4.6 billion. Profit for the financial year was EUR 129 million. Funds at own risk represented the largest part of the 2012 portfolio (98.6%), whereas the remaining 1.4% was accounted for by financings on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany (trust business). Since its foundation, DEG has cofinanced almost 1,300 companies in more than 120 countries and committed a total of around EUR 7 billion.