New management duo, proven values

With Laura Cyll as Managing Director, the generational change in our family business is complete. Together with Christoph Cyll, she is leading the company into the future – with fresh ideas and living tradition.

Dear business partners,

It is with great pleasure that we would like to inform you about an important step in our family business:

The planned transition to the third generation is complete.

Laura Cyll will also take over as Managing Director in April 2025 – alongside her brother Christoph Cyll, who has been in charge of operations since October 2024.

Christoph and Laura Cyll have both been with the company for many years and are very familiar with our values and standards. They are leading the company into the future with fresh impetus, vision and a lot of passion – on the basis of what has always characterized us as a family business: quality, reliability and a personal, partnership-based approach to customers, suppliers and service providers.

Even though operational responsibility is now being transferred entirely to the next generation, Dieter Cyll and Antje Herenz-Cyll will remain associated with the company as shareholders – and will continue to provide advice and support with their experience.

On behalf of the entire Herenz/Cyll family, we would like to express our sincere thanks for the trusting cooperation in the past – and look forward with pride and joy to what is to come. We are convinced that you will work with the new generation just as reliably and respectfully as you have always been used to from us.

With best regards

What happened so far

04.01.1949

  • Heinz and Ingrid Herenz found the company Heinz Herenz Medizinalbedarf in their 55sqm apartment in Hamburg Winterhude.

1959

  • The company presents itself for the first time with a booth at the Hannover Messe.

10.03.1964

  • The office building burns down completely.

11.03.1964

  • Just a day later, the neighbor Java coffee shops offers premises.

1965

  • Groundbreaking invention and patenting of the Steristopfen© – closures for test tubes, which are still used worldwide today.

01.05.1979

  • As a result of the constant expansion, the company moves into a new 800 sqm building in Hamburg Lohbrügge.

1986

  • Heinz Herenz Medizinalbedarf Second Generation: Antje Herenz-Cyll and Dieter Cyll join the family business.

2000

  • Exports expand to Australia, Africa, South America, Korea, Japan and Antarctica.
  • A little later also to Eastern Europe. More than 63 countries are supplied.

2000

Gynobrush mit Verpackung
  • The next promising product innovations conquer the market: Gyno Bush® is registered as a trademark.

2000

Sonosafe
  • The next promising product innovations conquer the market: Sonosafe® is registered as a trademark.

2004

  • The company is bursting at the seams – and moves to an area in Lohbrügge with a floor space of approx. 4000 sqm.
  • The change of name to Heinz Herenz Medizinalbedarf GmbH is completed

2016

  • Heinz Herenz Medizinalbedarf GmbH Third Generation: Laura Cyll and Christoph Cyll take over leading tasks in the company.

2017

Messe für Medizinalbedarf Unternehmen
  • Exports are being further expanded.
  • Heinz Herenz Medizinalbedarf GmbH supplies customers in more than 112 countries.

2018

  • Extension and expansion of the company’s own production of smear instruments.
  • Introduction of Liquid Swabs, the liquid medium swab and transporter system.

2020

  • With an increase in the production capacity of its own PCR swabs and a strong focus on Covid 19-related products for research and laboratory use, Heinz Herenz Medizinalbedarf GmbH is making a global contribution to coping with the Covid 19 pandemic.

2020

  • Corona pandemic

2024

  • Generation change
  • Christoph Cyll joins the management of Heinz Herenz Medizinalbedarf GmbH on October 1, 2024, thus continuing the 3rd generation of family succession.
  • His sister Laura Cyll will follow in the first half of 2025 and also join the management team.

2025

  • April 2025 Laura Cyll joins the management team – the third generation is now fully in charge of our family business.
  • From 2025, Dieter Cyll and Antje Herenz-Cyll will remain with the company as shareholders and provide advice.