Almost exactly twenty years ago, on September 19th, 1992, the inaugural meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Pharmazie e. V. took place in Heilbronn.
The society had 89 founding members and nearly everybody was present at the inaugural meeting at the „Haus des Handwerks“ in Heilbronn. The chairmen, Dr. Rüdiger Kilian, borrowed the motto of the meeting from George Bernhard Shaw, and this one reflected the reason for founding the association and its aims in a concise way.

„Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.“ 
George Bernard Shaw

What had happend first? Hospital pharmacy as well as the whole pharmaceutical profession got stuck in a crisis for several decades and, unfortunately they are still in it. At that time, nearly the complete drug production got industrialized. Therefore the self understanding of the pharmacists had to be defined newly. The process of reorientation is still not fully completed and concerns both