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KARL STORZ

The Founder


Karl Storz began producing instruments for ENT specialists in 1945. His intention was to develop instruments which would enable the practitioner to look inside the human body. The technology available at the end of the Second World War was still very modest: The area under examination in the interior of the human body was illuminated with miniature electric lamps; alternatively, attempts were made to reflect light from an external source into the body through the endoscopic tube. Karl Storz pursued a plan: He set out to introduce very bright, but cold light into the body cavities through the instrument, thus providing excellent visibility while at the same time allowing objective documentation by means of image transmission.

In realizing this dream, Karl Storz benefited from two rather contrary character traits: the unerring meticulousness of the craftsman and the imaginative power of the artist and inventor. Karl Storz was both. As a practitioner and an understanding, cosmopolitan entrepreneur, he succeeded not only in conveying his plans to his employees, but also in inspiring them with his enthusiasm.

With more than 400 patents and operative samples to his name, many of which were to play a major role in showing the way ahead, Karl Storz played a crucial role in the development of modern endoscopy.

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