During a business meeting in early September 1957 Grünenthals’s research director Dr. Heinrich Mückter, executive director Jacob Chauvistré and sales manager Klaus Winandi agreed on a name for their new product: “Contergan”.
Source: Anklageschrift (indictment) from 1967, today archived at the National Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia in Duisburg, Germany (Rheinland Division, Gerichte Rep. 139, No. 1–396), p. 56f.