The tar paint factory Dr. E. ter Meer & Cie in Uerdingen was founded by Dr. Edmund ter Meer founded. His son, Fritz ter Meer, joined his father\'s company after studying chemistry and quickly rose to management level. He led the negotiations that led to the merger of the family business into I.G. Farben Group.
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Through his father\'s company, ter Meer secured his place on the founding board of I.G. Colors. During the Nazi era, as head of Division II, he was responsible for the construction of the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp (I.G. Auschwitz) and the slave labor there, in which around 30,000 people died. In the Nuremberg I.G. Farben trial he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1948.
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