in 1837 Theodore Goldschmidt founde

in 1837 Theodore Goldschmidt founded the Goldschmidt Company in Berlin to supply chemicals to the textile industry, and established a research and development facility investigating processes for refining metals and their oxides. In March 1895, Dr Hans Goldschmidt was granted German Patent #96317 for a "process to manufacture metals and alloys" based upon the reduction of heavy metal oxides by a more reactive metal such as aluminium.