Complex sentence: The group can trace its history to the year 1849 when Carl Johann Freudenberg joined with Heinrich Christian Heintze to take over a tannery in Weinheim, Germany.
Split into simpler sentences: The group can trace its history to more than 160 years ago. In the year 1849 Carl Johann Freudenberg joined with Heinrich Christian Heintze to take over a tannery in Weinheim, Germany.