Friedrich-Bergius-Straße in the Biebrich district was named after the chemist and entrepreneur Friedrich Bergius (1884-1949) by resolution of the city council on December 3, 1964. It is located in the development area to the east of the Parkfeld. Several streets in this area were named after well-known chemists.

Bergius was born on October 11, 1884 as the son of the manufacturer Heinrich Bergius in Goldschmieden near Breslau. After graduating from secondary school in Breslau, he studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig and elsewhere. He received his doctorate in Leipzig and his habilitation at the University of Hanover in 1912.

In 1913, Bergius switched from teaching as a private lecturer to the chemical industry. In the same year, he applied for a patent for a process for liquefying coal. In 1914, he became head of the research laboratories at Theodor Goldschmidt AG in Essen. In 1916, Bergius became a deputy member of the company's Management Board. He was not called up for military service.

Between 1918 and 1924, Bergius was General Director of Erdöl- und Kohleverwertung AG. In 1920, he also took on the post of General Director of the newly founded consortium Deutsche Bergin AG. In the 1920s, Bergius sold his patent for coal liquefaction to I.G. Farben AG and researched a method for converting wood into carbohydrate feed. In 1927, he set up a pilot plant for this process and became chairman of the supervisory board of Holzhydrolyse AG.

In 1931, Bergius was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry together with Carl Bosch.

After the National Socialists came to power, Bergius' method of extracting sugar from wood was an important part of the National Socialists' efforts to achieve self-sufficiency. Bergius did not become a member of the NSDAP. The Nazi regime supported Bergius' research and methods. In 1934, a wood hydrolysis plant was built in Mannheim. Research funding from the Nazi regime enabled Bergius to set up a laboratory in Heidelberg. In 1936, the wood saccharification process was included in the four-year plan for securing raw materials.

Bergius was a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bergin AG and its general director until 1942. During the Second World War, Bergius is also said to have been active in foreign espionage.

After the end of the Second World War, Bergius tried to offer his wood saccharification process as a partial solution to the prevailing food shortage. He settled in Austria and founded Dr. Friedrich Bergius Fabrikationsgesellschaft m.b.H.

The company came under public scrutiny due to the Nazi involvement of some of its employees, whereupon Bergius left Austria and worked as a consultant in several countries, including Argentina. Friedrich Bergius died in Buenos Aires on March 30, 1949.

Due to Friedrich Bergiusʼ publicly articulated confession and the material benefits gained through the financial support of his research by the Nazi regime, the Historical Expert Commission appointed by resolution of the City Council in 2020 to review traffic areas, buildings and facilities named after people in the state capital of Wiesbaden recommended the contextualization of Friedrich-Bergius-Straße in 2023.