Wolfgang Bierer, CMPC

Master Pastry Chef Wolfgang Bierer earned the Certified Master Pastry Chef title in 1985.

Career highlights:

• He received the American Culinary Federation, Inc., (ACF) 2009 National Hermann G. Rusch Chef’s Achievement Award at the 2009 ACF National Convention held at the Orlando World Center Marriott.
• He was a certified culinary educator and a member of ACF’s honor society, the American Academy of Chefs.
• He worked as an Executive Chef for more than 20 years Nestlé and at the St. Louis Club as well as other famous European and American hotels and clubs.
• He was one of the youngest European chefs to become a master chef.
• He has received many awards throughout his career, including St. Louis Chefs de Cuisine’s Chef of the Year Award in 1978, Johnson & Wales University Educational Excellence Award in 1993 and Sullivan College’s Great American Chef Award in 1995.
• He was inducted as a member into the prestigious Honorable Order of the Golden Toque in 1981, granting him the most acclaimed recognition a chef can receive in America.
• He was a member of ACF Chefs of the Low Country.

He passed away on January 8, 2021 at the age of 85.