Bruno Tesch
German chemist
Died when: 55 years 275 days (669 months)Star Sign: Leo
Bruno Emil Tesch (14 August 1890 – 16 May 1946) was a German chemist and entrepreneur.Together with Gerhard Peters and Walter Heerdt, he invented the insecticide Zyklon B.
He was the owner of Tesch & Stabenow (called Testa), a pest control company he co-founded in 1924 with Paul Stabenow in Hamburg, Germany.
Following the end of World War II, he was arrested by the British as a war criminal, tried, and executed.
Tesch and his co-executive, Karl Weinbacher, were the only businessmen to be executed for their role in Nazi atrocities in Western Europe.
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