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STYLE. STRENGTH. STORZ. | SYBILL STORZ

Eight decades in pictures and thoughts
The biography of Sybill Storz is now available.

What has shaped the entrepreneur Dr. h. c. mult. Sybill Storz and what moves her to this day – as a managing director and now chair of the board? What does the future hold for endoscopy, the field to which she has dedicated her life? How does she approach complex tasks? Her answers are usually concise because she has already thought everything through to the end. Impressive, informative, but also entertaining: The biography of Sybill Storz was written by the journalist Susanne Offenbach.

Sybill Storz grants a very rare and personal insight into her life as an entrepreneur. This special biography is a fascinating dialog about the future, present, and past, highlighting the stages of her life, influential encounters, and company milestones. Containing many previously unpublished pictures, the book also holds extraordinary visual appeal.

 

"A unique lifetime achievement"

German President Professor Dr. Horst Köhler

KARL STORZ employs 8000 women and men. This impressive number is a testimony to the enormous growth of the family company established in 1945 and makes one wonder about who is behind this development, bearing entrepreneurial responsibility.

 

"For Sybill Storz, humanism and intellect are key."

Professor Dr. George Berci

Contents

Her long and successful professional life started in a small workshop alongside her father and company founder, Dr. med. h. c. Karl Storz, in the late 1950s. Over the next six decades, Sybill Storz shaped the family company using a sustainable growth and internationalization strategy. Through her personal commitment, sure instinct for trends, and impressive expertise, Sybill Storz developed her parents’ company into an innovative and global quality supplier and established the company as a partner to medicine worldwide.

Both the company and Sybill Storz individually stand for tradition, integrity, and the future. In January 2019, shortly before the company’s 75-year anniversary in 2020, Sybill Storz passed on company management to her son, Karl-Christian Storz. These important changes and events were an opportune time for Sybill Storz to take a look back, but also into the future, with a biography.

  • A PERFECT FATHER
    We could not have asked for a better one
  • THE EARLY YEARS
    Between freedom and responsibility
  • LADY ONE
    Focused and highly respected
  • TUTTLINGEN – THE HEADQUARTERS
    An open mind at the helm
  • STYLE. STRENGTH. STORZ.
  • TUTTLINGEN – THE CITY AND THE WORLD
    Home as a springboard
  • ENDOSCOPY – THE ONE-EYED ART
    The products
  • EMPLOYEES – FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS
    The joy of success
  • KARL-CHRISTIAN STORZ – THE TAKEOVER TYPE
    A huge backpack and open issues
  • ON FOREIGN SOIL
    Subsidiaries abroad
  • BRAZEN COPYCATS
    will be prosecuted
  • BERLIN – A REPRESENTATIVE ADVENTURE
    Visitor and Training Centre
  • CONTROLLED GENERATIONAL TRANSITION
    What now, KARL STORZ?
  • THE BEST FOR LAST
    Who is Sybill Storz?
  • NAMES AND A SMILE
    as a guide

Biography Details

STYLE. STRENGTH. STORZ. | SYBILL STORZ
Eight decades in pictures and thoughts

Author: Susanne Offenbach
Hardback edition: 413 pages, 200 color images
Languages: German, English
Publication date: November 2019
Price: €35.00 incl. VAT
ISBN: 978-3-89756-791-7


A €5.00 donation will be made per purchased copy.
Beneficiary:

  • Deutscher Kinderschutzbund Ortsverband Tuttlingen e.V. (German Child Protection League, Tuttlingen chapter)
  • FED 2000 e.V. – Familienentlastender Dienst für den Landkreis Tuttlingen (Family Support Service for the district of Tuttlingen)