Schering AG

Schering AG
IndustryPharmaceutical
PredecessorChemische Werke Essener Steinkohle Edit this on Wikidata
Founded1851
FateMerged
SuccessorBayer Schering Pharma AG
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
HeadquartersBerlin-Wedding, Germany
Key people
Hubertus Erlen, last CEO
ProductsGynaecology & Andrology
Special therapeutics
Diagnostical devices & Nuclear medicine
Oncology
Number of employees
26,000 (2004)
Websitewww.schering.xyz
Headquarters of Schering AG, now Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, in Berlin
Office building for pharmacological science in Berlin

Schering AG was a research-centered German multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Wedding, Berlin, which operated as an independent company from 1851 to 2006. In 2006, it was bought by Bayer AG and merged to form the Bayer subsidiary Bayer Schering Pharma AG, which was renamed Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals in 2011. Schering was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and had 26,000 employees as of 2004.

The American pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough, formerly the Schering Corporation, was originally the US subsidiary of Schering AG, and merged with Merck & Co. in 2009.


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