What Nazi war criminal was chairman of the supervisory board of the largest chemical producer in the world?
BASF BASF SE is a German chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries and operates six integrated production sites and 390 other production sites in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas and Africa. Its headquarters is located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has customers in over 190 countries and supplies products to a wide variety of industries. Despite its size and global presence, BASF has received relatively little public attention since it abandoned manufacturing and selling BASF-branded consumer electronics products in the 1990s.
Hellmuth Becker Hellmuth Becker (12 August 1902 – 28 February 1953) was a high-ranking German SS commander during World War II who led the SS Division Totenkopf. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Post-war, Becker was tried by Soviet authorities twice, for war crimes and sabotage, and was executed in 1953.