The origins of B.H. Mayer’s IdentitySign go back to B.H. Mayer’s Decorative Embossing Institute, which manufactured medals, coins, military decorations, badges and jewellery at the site in Pforzheim. The Decorative Embossing Institute was founded in 1871 as an embossing works in Pforzheim by entrepreneur, B.H. Mayer (1843–1911), and remained in family ownership until 1998. In 1993, B.H. Mayer’s IdentitySign GmbH was established as a subsidiary of the limited partnership [KG].
In 2006, Bernhard Heinrich Mayer sold his company B.H. Mayer’s IdentitySign to its CEO at the time, Horst Kraus, who unexpectedly passed away in 2007. His sons Alexander Kraus and Peter Kraus have been heading the firm as sole executive partners since.