Background
He was born to the jeweller Edmund Mohr and his wife Maria Mayer in Pforzheim, Germany.
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Herbert Mohr-Mayer
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In 1960 he received a Doctor of Philosophy in business administration at the University of Munich, then he worked with jewellers Asprey in London and Altenloh, Brussels until 1964.
Career
He continued the legacy of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé. Mohr-Mayers childhood was overshadowed by the bombing of Pforzheim in 1945 during World World War World War II 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 Victor Mayer Company remained miraculously untouched by the disaster.
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 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 women"s lib activist Else Mayer. He became instrumental in turning her nunnery in Bonn into a chritable foundation.
Herbert Mohr-Mayer has been volunteering in the Else Mayer Foundation since 2004.
Herbert Mohr-Mayer revived the Fabergé (line) which had been discontinued by the heirs of Peter Carl Fabergé. The grandsons of Fabergé sold the licensing rights to Fabergé Company in 1989. In the same year Fabergé Incorporated. appointed Victor Mayer as the new licensee.
After years of research in the fields of traditional jewerly making Mohr-Mayer reestablished long lost manufacturing techniques such as guilloché and Vitreous enamel.
In 1991 the company presented the first Fabergé (line) since the closing of the Fabergé workshop in 1917. Fabergé objects from the house of Victor Mayer have been accuired by the Kremlin Museum the Art Museum of New Orleans and many private collections around the world.
