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Hugo Mayer was born on Jan. 21, 1912 in Wengen/Allgaeu, the sixth child to a family of craftsmen. rom 1927 to 1930, he completed his apprenticeship at an organ-building workshop. From 1930 to 1940, he made the most different experiences in his trade throughout Europe as a journeyman. After the war in 1948, when the Russians had released him from captivity, Hugo Mayer returned to his beloved profession and got his master craftsman’s diploma. In that same year, he became the manager of the largest organ-building company in Germany at the time. In 1952, Hugo Mayer founded his own workshop in Brebach (close to Saarbruecken). His new company with a staff of about 20 people mainly built organs with electrical tracts and register platform chests. In 1957, the workshop moved to a larger site in Heusweiler (still the Saarbruecken area) which has been the business’ location to the present day. The system of register platform chests was replaced with slider chests and predominantly mechanical tracts. Training young qualified people of the local area was a high company priority. Mayer’s organ-building workshop has experienced steady progress ever since and is renowned both at home and abroad. |
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