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Consul hans hermann weyer
Hans Hermann Consul Weyer, Graf von Yorck is a German trader in nobility and academics titles, and a flamboyant member of the international jet set. He is a former window dresser who became an honorary consul of Bolivia in Luxembourg and who became known in the 1960s for selling certificates of nobility, doctoral degrees from invented colleges and universities, and other decorations in Germany. Described in 1982 by John Vinocur of The New York Times as "a Munich rogue who sold phony titles" to "used-car dealers hungry for respectability", Weyer is given credit for Hans Lichtenberg's adoption in the latter's biographical profile in the cast list of the 2005 German reality-television program "Die Burg". Lichtenberg then married Zsa Zsa Gabor. According to the newspaper Rhein-Zeitung, Weyer was adopted as an adult, in 1996, by a Countess of Yorck, a 78-year-old noblewoman, and now uses the name Consul Weyer Graf von Yorck.
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- Consul hans hermann weyer
- Ausschnitt aus schmidteinander folge 16 16 08 1992 interview mit consul hans hermann weyer
- Life and career
- References
Ausschnitt aus schmidteinander folge 16 16 08 1992 interview mit consul hans hermann weyer
Life and career
Weyer was born and raised in Berlin. When his father returned from Soviet captivity in 1955, his mother had already had him declared dead and married the British officer Clifford Davis. It took Weyer years to track down his father in Uruguay. His brother became a pilot for a German airline.
His stepfather Davis is said to have given Weyer access to diplomatic circles, through which he established business relations with the ambassadors of poor countries that could not afford professional consulates. At the time, Weyer said he brokered 465 honorary consulates. He belonged to the international jet set. One focus of his business activities is said to have been in South America, where he is said to have maintained personal contacts with Paraguay's then-dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
Weyer arranged adoptions by mostly impoverished members of noble houses for his wealthy clientele. He himself had himself adopted by a Countess of Yorck. Since then, his civil surname had been "Weyer-Graf von Yorck". His main residence is Rio de Janeiro, but he also has other residences and owns, among other things, a private island.
For a short time, Weyer gained attention as the chairman and chancellor candidate of the Deutsche Freiheitspartei (DFP), established in Munich on November 18, 1979. The party reported having 26,000 members. In the 1980 Bundestag election, the DFP presented a single direct candidate in the Freising constituency, securing 96 votes.
In 1991, Weyer married the physician Christina Scholtyssek (born 1963), a daughter of the diplomat Karl-Heinz Scholtyssek. For many years, Weyer was a guest on television talk shows and appeared in the coverage of numerous gossip magazines as well as in advertisements for Onken GmbH.
Hans Hermann Weyer died on 15 August 2023, at the age of 85.