I was at the store picking up medicine and I see a box of medicine called Bayer and it had the same Bayer badge on it too, which came first and is it one company?
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My brother in Christ… I… 😟
Ich tue das, weil ich ein absolut reines Gewissen habe.
I also wonder how people can actually be so dumb
Where have you been this whole time
This is what you get when you call “dieses land wird sich verändern und ich freue mich darauf”
Wow
Bei dir ist im Stoffwechselhaushalt aber auch einiges „verändert“, hm?
Schäm dich.
2 things people outside Germany should know:
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When Xabi Alonso is cooking, he is cooking the good stuff.
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When you are wearing a Bayer Leverkusen kit in a German pharmacy, every product is 10% off. Except heroin.
Does this include estradiol? Asking for a friend :)
Unless you’re in a Bayern shirt. Then they ask you to pay 10% more
Oh my god, is Xabi alonso Walter white?
No, he isn’t bald enough. Peter Bosz, however, was Walther White during his time in Leverkusen.
Sometimes we get a free ticket with our third package of Aspirin.
Except heroin.
For that we wear Schalke.
Heroin is a Bayer trademark.
Frankfurt hallo?!
Christoph Daum ist wieder da und in Frankfurt kauft er Koka 🎶
Hatte ich dran überlegt, aber ich dachte auch, wir sind ja in r/Bundesliga, da schien Frankfurt nicht angebracht.
Frankfurt is full of crack these days.
SV Darmstadt 98 for the good old Merck Cocain
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Bayer is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, with a stories history that includes the economic miracle post WW2, commercialising heroin, being merged into IG Farben and producing Zyklon B for the gas chambers in concentration camps, IG Farben broken up and Bayer being recreated, inventing Aspirin (what you probably saw in the pharmacy), acquiring Monsanto and being tied to a football club that achieved lots of second places.
Bayer Leverkusen 04 was started as a works team by employees of the company as a way for them to be physically active and isn’t limited to just football. Of course, the footballing division has since outgrown its amateur status. But the club is still owned by Bayer.
Is it true that the players were employed by Bayer? And when did it change?
It’s true but I don’t know when it changed.
Around the late 40s and early 50s, when the team went up to the second division. Some of them still worked for Bayer, but it wasn’t a necessity anymore.
In the 60s, when Bundesliga was originally formed, the teams became more professional and the number of employed players sank down.
Let me rephrase it, I didn’t mean employees playing for the team but players getting contracted by the company.
Edit: I don’t mean employees playing for the team but other players contracted by the company so they could play for the team
Used to be a thing, i would guess till late 60s and maybe even early 70s. Leverkusen wasn’t promoted to the first devision until 1978/79. I think Falko Götz even said something about securing a Job after football when he fleed from the DDR and joined Leverkusen
Definitely not one of the largest Pharma companies in the world. I’m not even sure if they are top 20 anymore.
Number 7 according to wikipedia
Certainly not in market cap
Yo I thought this was a “shitpost” because obviously not, obviously that’s just a common name… Dang.
Do not forget the blood products contaminated with HiV which were then sold by Bayer in Asia and Latin America which caused 1000s of patients to develop Aids. For something a bit more recent.
It’s still funny to me how you can be owned by a literal evil megacorp and no one bats an eye as long as you dont win anything
This is either the best shitpost or the best actual post in sub history.
All this post needs for perfection is a “Yank here” at the beginning
“As an american…”
ive seen dumber questions by germans in the usa. in general germans are probably very slow.
Found the triggered yank
That’s because you have to be dumb to move to the US as a german
Ja mei wir sin in dea tat langsamer im Waffen ziang und Krankenkassen zahlen aba des is joa koa Grund gleich so sauer zu wern. Mogst a Busserl?
Yank here, can Medicine FC finally beat Qatar FC in the play-offs this season?
It’s a shitpost if you look at OP‘s post history
The mental imagery of Boniface and Xhaka having to do an extra shift in the factory after not winning a game
I imagine them doing aspirin ads in white lab coats
In the early days a lot of players worked in the Bayer factories.
I think technically they are actual employees of Bayer
Biggest bench ever with 101.296 employees, some of which that know how to kick a ball
Some of them would have beaten Austria.
Oba wir san bessa ois die Deitschn!!!
By this logic Monsanto would be the most expensive transfer in history. It is also a really bad one considering Monsanto played exactly 0 minutes of professional football for Bayer.
But has devastating results to the green;-)
r/soccercirclejerk
Does RB Leipzig produce energy drinks?
No, only Rasenballsportzubehör.
Und Dresden macht Dynamos. 🤷♀️
Was ist mit Kräuter Fürth? Die warten nur auf die Cannabis Legalisierung und dann wird groß investiert.
Warte ab wenn Bayern mitspielt. Da wird ordentlich Kohle produziert.
Herta BSC macht Härter für Zweikomponentenepoxid
Barca taking notes for their next lever
Fun fact: Bayer invented heroin.
Bayer bought Bayer Leverkusen and also the state bayer-n. Then they brandet it with their name.
it’s called the Werkself for a reason.
Given the other answers seem to be trolling. I’ll give you a bit of the history.
Bayer in a chemical and pharmaceutical company (they bought for instance Monsanto a few years ago) that originated in Wuppertal, Germany but Wuppertal is effectively just a small valley with no space for big production plants.
So Bayer built a factory in Leverkusen, a very small town back then with little to no relevance except the space it offered. Nowadays, it’s the heart of the German chemical industry, more or less. But Bayer made the start. That was about 1900.
The soccer club Bayer 04 Leverkusen came into existence as an afterwork hobby for the people working there.
It’s a so called Werkself (“factory eleven”) similar to Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg doesn’t have VW in the name but it was originally a team that solely consisted of VW workers. That is why only these two clubs theoretically are allowed to have a company name because it’s their historic origin.
That is for instance why RB Leipzig is so looked down upon they were a small club that got artificially pumped up with money and then tried to trick their way around the naming rules by naming themselves “Rasenballsport Leipzig.” After “Red Bull Leipzig” was denied
Schalke 04 was a miner’s club but not for an individual coal mine but all coal mines in Gelsenkirchen. Schalke was only the part of Gelsenkirchen they had their pitch. But that too originally was an afterwork hobby.
I’m sure I missed several clubs with similar origins. Probably all clubs that are 100 years and older.
Carl Zeiss Jena must be another one!