The Maybach Holiday Reception 2019

Press: ☛ Our recep­tion fea­tured in the Nob Hill Gazette. ☚


SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Decem­ber 12^th, 2019. The Wil­helm & Karl May­bach Foun­da­tion held its first May­bach Hol­i­day Recep­tion in San Fran­cis­co, CA and cel­e­brat­ed the Lega­cy of Men­tor­ing – An Evening of May­bach with 120 exclu­sive­ly invit­ed guests.

The event was held on Decem­ber 4^th at The Bat­tery in San Fran­cis­co, which is the pri­vate social club of Sil­i­con Val­ley entre­pre­neurs and the melt­ing pot of inno­va­tion, ideas, and diver­si­ty in the Bay Area. The night was host­ed by the Wil­helm & Karl May­bach Foun­da­tion and brought togeth­er with the tremen­dous sup­port and con­tri­bu­tion of the spon­sors Mer­cedes-May­bach (Mer­cedes-Benz USA), May­bach Icons of Lux­u­ry, and the Blue Hori­zon Group. In addi­tion, the event was proud­ly sup­port­ed by May­bach Fam­i­ly Vine­yards, Fer­ren Win­ery, and Rivers-Marie Win­ery, Orlane Cos­met­ics, Mam­mut Sports Group North Amer­i­ca and the Con­sulate Gen­er­al of the Fed­er­al Repub­lic of Ger­many, San Fran­cis­co. The vision of the May­bach lega­cy was excep­tion­al­ly recre­at­ed by the renowned and cel­e­brat­ed artist Michael Schwab.

Thank you to our spon­sors and sup­port­ers for help­ing us put on this great event! 

The May­bach Foun­da­tion show­cas­es May­bach Engi­neer­ing, design her­itage and offers pro­grams that men­tor tal­ent to inspire sus­tain­able inno­va­tion. The May­bach lega­cy is a trib­ute to the pow­er of men­tor­ing. At its root, the May­bach lega­cy is based on a sim­ple vision: bring­ing mobil­i­ty to land, air, and sea. This vision was ful­filled by the world-famous May­bach engines and is now cel­e­brat­ed through the May­bach Foundation’s ‘May­bach Pow­ered-projects’. Wil­helm and Karl Maybach’s engines were uti­lized by Zep­pelin air­ships, cars, hi-speed trains, and boats, thus paving a new era of trans­porta­tion and rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing mobil­i­ty by land, air, and sea — the foun­da­tion that Wil­helm and Karl laid still is a sub­stan­tial part of our life. Instill­ing trust in some­one sole­ly on the basis of tal­ent and poten­tial and inspir­ing them with the right kind of men­tor­ship was as rel­e­vant then as it is today.

Uli May­bach, Pres­i­dent of the May­bach Foun­da­tion thanked the audi­ence and was inspired by the pos­i­tive feed­back received: “My faith in mankind is renewed when I hear the many pos­i­tive reflec­tions on the ser­vice of men­tor­ing that the evening’s guests shared with me — espe­cial­ly while sur­round­ed by the trap­pings of über-lux­u­ry: the beau­ti­ful May­bach acces­sories, the Mam­mut delta line and of course the stun­ning May­bach SUV. Hav­ing Blue Hori­zon here also added a unique per­spec­tive of sus­tain­abil­i­ty at the inter­sec­tion of the impor­tant val­ues that the May­bach Foun­da­tion stands for – as we are fac­ing dif­fer­ent, chal­lenges nowa­days — a mod­ern need for mentoring!”.

Fol­lowed by a social get togeth­er and gath­er­ing of local and inter­na­tion­al entre­pre­neurs from the Bay Area tech com­mu­ni­ty, glob­al busi­ness own­ers, artists and phil­an­thropists, fine appe­tiz­ers and dia­logues about men­tor­ing, the recep­tion host­ed a pan­el of five speak­ers across dif­fer­ent indus­tries and back­grounds to share their chal­lenges and solu­tions (includ­ing the May­bach Foundation’s Pres­i­dent Ulrich Schmid-May­bach), Rachael A. Jarosh, CEO of Enac­tus, a glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of stu­dent, aca­d­e­m­ic and busi­ness lead­ers com­mit­ted to shape a more sus­tain­able world, Roger Lien­hard, Founder & Chair­man of the Blue Hori­zon Group that focus­es on cre­at­ing the largest ecosys­tem for tasty, healthy, and sus­tain­able food — a true mile mark­er for dis­rup­tive indus­tries. Hans-Ulrich Süd­beck, Con­sul Gen­er­al of the Ger­man Con­sulate of the Fed­er­al Repub­lic of Ger­many in San Fran­cis­co, not­ed that the May­bach Foun­da­tion and the lega­cy it cel­e­brates stands strong as a won­der­ful sym­bol hon­or­ing the Trans-Atlantic bridge-build­ing between the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca and Ger­many. The Con­sulate rep­re­sents the pow­er of mutu­al sup­port and friend­ship which man­i­fest­ed the con­nec­tions between the inter­na­tion­al guests from Ger­many and Europe. In addi­tion, the May­or of the City of Friedrichshafen, Ger­many, Andreas Brand hon­ored the accom­plish­ments of the May­bach fam­i­ly and the impact it has until today. The con­trib­u­tors to the pan­el dis­cussed and shared their men­tor­ing expe­ri­ences and jour­neys: how it made a mean­ing­ful impact on their lives and how inspi­ra­tional their solu­tions can be for others.

While the May­bach lega­cy of men­tor­ing was in the lime­light of this year’s event, there was a very spe­cial sur­prise for all attend­ing guests: the U.S. pre­mière of the new Mer­cedes-May­bach GLS! One of the recep­tion high­lights was the announce­ment of the brand-new Mer­cedes-May­bach GLS — exclu­sive­ly brought to us by Mer­cedes-Benz USA: “The Mer­cedes-May­bach brand stands for exclu­sive lux­u­ry, max­i­mum com­fort and state-of-the-art tech­nol­o­gy in auto­mo­tive engi­neer­ing, ser­vices, and acces­sories. It is seen as a trail­blaz­er in defin­ing style and sta­tus. The Mer­cedes-May­bach GLS 600 4MATIC rep­re­sents a new form of lux­u­ry in the SUV seg­ment. It extends the port­fo­lio of the Mer­cedes-May­bach brand by com­bin­ing the body design, per­for­mance and tech­nol­o­gy of the new GLS with the lux­u­ry of a top-class sedan. Its spa­cious inte­ri­or with the high­est-grade mate­ri­als and extreme­ly effec­tive noise insu­la­tion cre­ates a styl­ish and lux­u­ri­ous atmosphere.”

The ‘sophis­ti­cat­ed beau­ty’ was proud­ly intro­duced to the guests at the Battery’s gar­den area to be one of the first few to wit­ness the Mer­cedes-May­bach GLS with a max­i­mum of tech­ni­cal inno­va­tion and Mer­cedes-May­bach brand val­ues and per­fec­tion of Maybach-engineering.

A silent auc­tion was held to pro­mote the items gen­er­ous­ly pro­vid­ed by our spon­sors includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to out­door jack­ets and hik­ing gears from Mam­mut, valu­able cos­met­ics from Orlane, fash­ion acces­sories from the May­bach Icons of Lux­u­ry and orig­i­nal signed icon­ic May­bach Foun­da­tion posters by renowned artist Michael Schwab. The response to the silent auc­tion was excep­tion­al and the guests had a great sense of hol­i­day giv­ing spirit!

Ulrich May­bach shared the details about join­ing the May­bach Foun­da­tion Club by enrolling in an annu­al mem­ber­ship and also how one could be part of the men­tor pro­gram and con­tribute, by invit­ing all guests to stay tuned to the Foundation’s social media pages and look­ing out for the ‘Men­tor­garten’ launch­ing ear­ly 2020.

Enter­tain­ment was accom­pa­nied by won­der­ful hol­i­day jazz music brought to the May­bach Foun­da­tion guests by The Can­dace Geiger Trio. The night unwound with excit­ed min­gling and net­work­ing about the men­tor­ship pro­grams and ideas of push­ing it towards sus­tain­abil­i­ty which mat­ters now more than ever – and needs solu­tions and answers. And as all good things come to an end, the guests were giv­en gift bags which proud­ly con­tained thought­ful gifts from our spon­sors and some love from the May­bach Foundation.

The event might be over, but the inspi­ra­tions and inter­ac­tive dia­logue will still endure the test of time and even­tu­al­ly find­ing its way to doing good and by extend­ing a help­ing hand to those in need.

Our his­to­ry, your future.

For com­ments or media inquiries, con­tact Dr. Corin­na Basler, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the May­bach Foun­da­tion at events@​maybach.​org.