Herbert Mohr-Mayer (born September 22, 1933) is a German

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who was president of

Victor Mayer Victor Mayer (1857 in Pforzheim – 1946) founded the jewellery manufacture Victor Mayer in Pforzheim in 1890. In the time of Jugendstil / Art Nouveau, the company created pieces based on the designs of well-known artists such as the jewellery desig ...

Co. from 1965 to 2005. He continued the legacy of the Russian jeweller

Peter Carl Fabergé Peter Carl Fabergé, also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé (russian: Карл Гу́ставович Фаберже́, ''Karl Gustavovich Faberzhe''; 30 May 1846 – 24 September 1920), was a Russian jewellery, jeweller best known for the fam ...

. He was born to the jeweller Edmund Mohr and his wife Maria Mayer in

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, Germany. His grandfather was the German jeweller

who founded the

jewelry company in

in 1890. Another famed family member is his brother the computer pioneer

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. Mohr-Mayers childhood was overshadowed by the bombing of Pforzheim in 1945 during

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. The dramatic event took the lives of many of his childhood friends and destroyed 83% of the inner city. The building he grew up in which also housed the

Co. remained miraculously untouched by the disaster. In 1960 he received a PhD in business administration at the University of

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, then he worked with jewellers

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and Altenloh,

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until 1964. There he refined his taste and skills in jewelry making. In 1965 he and Hubert Mayer became owners of the Victor Mayer Jewelry manufacturing company in Pforzheim. Mohr-Mayer turned the Victor Mayer company over to his son Marcus O. Mohr in 2001 and retired from his position in 2003. Mohr-Mayer continues to represent the Fabergé workmaster at events of the Collegium Fabergé and gives lectures on the history and making of Fabergé eggs. Mohr-Mayer is also a nephew of the German

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activist

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. He became instrumental in turning her nunnery in

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into a charitable foundation. Herbert Mohr-Mayer has been volunteering in the Else Mayer Foundation since 2004.

Restoring the Fabergé line

Herbert Mohr-Mayer revived the Fabergé line, which had been discontinued by the heirs of

. The grandsons of Fabergé sold the licensing rights to Fabergé Co. in 1989. In the same year, Fabergé Inc. appointed Victor Mayer as the new licensee. After years of research in the fields of traditional jewelry making Mohr-Mayer reestablished long-lost manufacturing techniques such as

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and

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. In 1991 the company presented the first Fabergé-line object since the closing of the Fabergé workshop in 1917. Fabergé objects from the house of Victor Mayer have been acquired by the

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Museum, the Art Museum of

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, and many private collections around the world.

References

*http://mohr-mayer.com/ *Status new

*Mieks.co

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Restoring the Fabergé line

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