Hevert drugs

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Hevert drugs
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1956
Seat Nussbaum ( Rhineland-Palatinate )
management Mathias Hevert, Marcus Hevert ( Managing Director )
Number of employees approx. 200
sales approx. EUR 30 million (2018)
Website www.hevert.com
As of June 4, 2019

The Hevert Pharmaceuticals GmbH & Co. KG is a mid-sized German pharmaceutical company , headquartered in Walnut in Bad Sobernheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , the homeopathic remedies , herbal medicines and micronutrient supplements manufactured.

Products

The Hevert product range includes homeopathic single and complex remedies , phytopharmaceuticals, micronutrient and vitamin preparations . In addition to tablets and drops , the company also offers injection solutions for doctors and naturopaths . With over 100 products sold, the company ranks itself among the leading German manufacturers of “homeopathic and herbal medicines and micronutrient preparations”.

history

The company was founded in 1956 by Emil Hevert in Sobernheim as Hesopharm Pharmaceutical Products . Many of the medicines were developed in collaboration with students of Emanuel Felke , a co-founder of complex homeopathy . The company itself had Hevert in before the founding Richard Mauch & Co. worked. Mauch had introduced Emil Hevert to the methods and remedies of Pastor Felke, who was close friends with Richard Mauch in the last years of his life and who had his Felke complex remedies made for him from 1922/23 .

After a dispute with the company Helopharm from Berlin , the name of the company in 1963 was Hevert drugs changed. After the early death of the company founder, it was temporarily continued by his wife Dorothea Hevert until the founder's son, the doctor of medicine and pharmacist Wolfgang Hevert, took over the management of the company in 1972 . When Wolfgang Hevert died in 2003 at the age of 55, his eldest son Mathias Hevert took over the management of the company. His brother Marcus Hevert has also been managing director since 2014.

Since 2006, Hevert-Arzneimittel has been donating a biennial Dr. Wolfgang Hevert Prize for "publications dealing with basic research, clinical trials, therapy concepts or special case descriptions in the field of holistic medicine, such as naturopathy or homeopathy".

Business figures

In 2005, Hevert-Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG had 95 employees and achieved sales of 16 million euros. In 2013, this was increased to over 20 million euros. By 2018 it rose to 29.7 million euros.

Litigation, controversy and criticism

According to a decision by the Federal Court of Justice in 2017, Hevert's product, sinusitis, can no longer be advertised with the claim that it helps "quickly and effectively". For the complex homeopathic Calmvalera , the court forbade the advertising message that it was "effective support for sleep disorders". The BGH decision only allowed statements that are directly covered by the product approval by the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM). As early as 2016, the BGH did not accept the company's non-admission complaint against a ruling by the Koblenz Higher Regional Court , in which the statement "Homeopathic medicines promote self-healing" used for the application of Calmvalera was prohibited due to insufficient evidence . (Ref .: I ZR 36/16).

In 2019 the company took legal action against the journalist Bernd Kramer, the doctor Natalie Grams and the pharmacist Gerd Glaeske for "unjustified discrediting of homeopathy" and "for constructive exchange" and caused a stir throughout Germany. With reference to an article by him critical of homeopathy in the TAZ , Kramer was asked in a legal letter from Hevert to "refrain from making homeopathy-derogatory statements in any form, including publications, in the future". A spokeswoman for the pharmaceutical manufacturer said that they were trying to "establish a constructive exchange with the journalist Bernd Kramer" in this way. In a warning to cease and desist, Grams was asked to no longer claim that the effectiveness of homeopathy “does not go beyond the placebo effect ”. Otherwise there is a risk of a contractual penalty of 5100 euros. However, according to his own statement, Grams did not sign the declaration. She declared that she would “insist on giving a report on the state of scientific knowledge” and spoke of an “attempt to muzzle critics”. Glaeske was asked to refrain from making the statement that “proof of efficacy is fundamentally missing for all remedies that are homeopathic”, since German pharmaceutical law requires proof of efficacy for approved homeopathic remedies . Gerd Glaeske agreed, but stated that the proof of efficacy through “ internal consensus ” “does not meet the methodological requirements for proof of therapeutic efficacy and therapeutic benefit” and that he continues to have considerable doubts about the therapeutic benefit of homeopathic medicines. With the action against Grams, Hevert has "gotten a lot of trouble" in the social networks, according to Tagesspiegel .

In this context, a contribution by Jan Böhmermann in his program Neo Magazin Royale , in which both the legal conduct of the Hevert company and the teaching of homeopathy as a whole were criticized, received great attention . Böhmermann accused the company, among other things, of producing "nonsense"; He called manufacturers who pretended that homeopathy really worked as "impostors" and "commercial barons of lies". During the broadcast, a counter was displayed every time the statement was repeated that the effect of homeopathic preparations did not go beyond the placebo effect by the amount requested by Hevert in the declarations of cease and desist.

According to Hevert, “no further legal steps were taken, neither against Ms. Grams nor against Mr. Böhmermann”.

In 2019, the Hevert company was awarded the negative prizes The golden aluminum hat and the golden board in front of the head for its legal action against critics .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Hevert - In the tradition of Pastor Felke. Hevert-Arzneimittel, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 160 years of Mauch's villa. Association of the Mauch'schen Villa, Haus Wilhelm e. V. Göppingen, November 5, 2019, accessed on December 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Rainer Mersinger: obituary pharmacist Dr. med. Wolfgang Hevert. In: naturheilpraxis.de. May 2003, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The Hevert management team. Hevert-Arzneimittel, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Dr. Wolfgang Hevert Prize. Hevert-Arzneimittel, accessed December 16, 2019 . Dr. Wolfgang Hevert Prize 2020. Hevert Medicines, accessed on July 9, 2019 . Dr. Wolfgang Hevert Prize 2018. Hevert-Arzneimittel, January 26, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Hevert with record sales: double-digit growth for the naturopathic specialist. In: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung 4/2014. January 20, 2014, p. 4 , accessed December 16, 2019 .
  8. ^ A b Siegfried Hofmann: Homeopathy company causes outrage on the internet. In: handelsblatt.de . June 5, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup: Federal Court of Justice - Hevert is not allowed to advertise with self-healing. In: DAZ.online , February 14, 2017.
  10. ↑ Julia Borsch: Registered vs. Approved homeopathy: Hevert values ​​distinction. In: DAZ.online , June 4, 2019.
  11. ↑ a b Julia Köppe: Pharmaceutical company takes legal action against homeopathic critics. In: Spiegel Online , June 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ a b c Christoph von Eichhorn: Homeopathy company warns skeptics. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 31, 2019.
  13. ↑ Hevert - manufacturer of homeopathic medicines suing critics. In: Focus Online , June 1, 2019.
  14. ↑ Bernd Kramer: Controversy about homeopathy: The white nothing . In: The daily newspaper . March 5, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 26, 2019]).
  15. ↑ René Martens: Homeopathy criticism: drug manufacturer sends lawyers' letters for a constructive exchange. In: Journalist , July 8, 2019.
  16. ↑ Leonie Feuerbach: Doctor as activist: “Homeopathy is esoteric and not medicine” . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 9, 2019]).
  17. ↑ SPD politician wants to ban reimbursement of costs for homeopathy. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  18. ↑ According to Böhmermann satire: More respect in the homeopathy debate. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  19. ↑ VICE Staff: Böhmermann is so brutally destroying homeopathy. In: Vice. June 14, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Jan Böhmermann takes homeopathy apart: is he right? In: Berliner Morgenpost . June 14, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  21. ↑ After Böhmermann's criticism of homeopathy: Globuli supplier Hevert is mocked online. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Böhmermann has just destroyed homeopathy. Retrieved June 18, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Homeopathy works * | NEO MAGAZIN ROYALE with Jan Böhmermann. ZDFneo , accessed on August 25, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup: Homeopathy advertising in court. In: MedWatch . January 22, 2020, accessed January 22, 2020 .
  25. ↑ The golden aluminum hat 2019 - the winners. In: The golden aluminum hat. October 13, 2019, accessed on October 14, 2019 (German).
  26. ↑ “Golden Board” goes to homeopathy company. wien ORF at / Agencies red, December 13, 2019, accessed on December 14, 2019 .