Editing Arthur Eichengrün (section)

== Life ==
Arthur Eichengrün was born in [[Aachen]] as the son of a [[Jew]]ish cloth merchant and manufacturer. In 1885, he took up studies in [[chemistry]] at the [[RWTH Aachen|University of Aachen]], later moved to [[Berlin]], and finally to [[Erlangen]], where he received a [[doctoral degree]] in 1890.

In 1896, he joined [[Bayer]], working in the pharmaceutical laboratory. In 1908, he quit Bayer and founded his own pharmaceutical factory, the ''Cellon-Werke'' in Berlin. His company was "[[Aryanization (Nazism)|Aryanized]]" by the [[Nazism|Nazis]] in 1938.

In 1943, he was arrested and sentenced to four months in prison for having failed to include the word "Israel" in his name in a letter to a Reich official (Nazi law required Jewish men to be identified as such, as they required Jewish women to identify as "Sarah".). In May 1944, he was arrested again on the same charge and deported to the [[concentration camp Theresienstadt]], where he spent 14 months until the end of [[World War II]] in Europe, escaping death.

After the liberation, he returned to Berlin, but moved to [[Bad Wiessee]] in [[Bavaria]] in 1948, where he died the following year at the age of 82.