Background
Friedrich Paulsen was born in the tiny port hamlet of Dagebüll on the North Frisian coast.
Friedrich Paulsen was born in the tiny port hamlet of Dagebüll on the North Frisian coast.
In 1933 during his studies at Kiel Paulsen suffered from harassments and threats by the National Socialists due to his opposing political believes. Therefore he fled to Malmö, Sweden via Basel in Switzerland to avoid his internment at a concentration camp. In Sweden, whose citizen he became in 1941, he laid the foundation for the establishment of FERRING (1950) by his research on hormones and their synthentical production.
Upon accepting the Swedish citizenship he changed his given name Friedrich to Frederik.
After his withdrawal from the company"s management he died in 1997 at the age of 87 in Alkersum on Föhour