Martin Weiss
Martin Weiss may refer to: * Martin Weiss (diplomat) (born 1962), Austrian diplomat and Ambassador of Austria to the United States * Martin Weiss (Nazi official) (1903–1984), commander of Vilna Ghetto and the ''Ypatingasis būrys'' mass murder killing squad, convicted of war crimes (revoked) * Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905–1946), SS Commander of German concentration camps, executed for war crimes See also * Martin Weis (born 1970), German silver medallist at the 1998 World Rowing Championships * Martin Weisz Martin Weisz (born March 27, 1966), is a German music video and film director. He has directed over 350 videos and worked with artists such as Nickelback, Brandy, Puff Daddy, and LL Cool J. He has also directed numerous commercials. Martin Wei ...

Martin Weiss (diplomat)
Martin Weiss (born December 31, 1962, in Innsbruck, Austria) is an Austrian career diplomat who served as Ambassador of Austria to the United States from 2019 to 2022. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of Salzburg Global Seminar, an independent nongovernmental organization based in Salzburg, Austria and Washington, D.C. He previously served as Austrian Ambassador to Israel and Cyprus. Life and career Martin Weiss grew up in Salzburg, Austria, and studied law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. After graduating in 1986, he worked as teaching assistant for constitutional law at his ''alma mater'' until 1988. He then spent one year at the University of Virginia School of Law on a Fulbright stipend, acquiring a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in 1989. He joined the Austrian Foreign Service in 1990 and had his first posting at the Austrian Mission to the United Nations in New York, where he served as Human Rights Attaché. After returning to t ...
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Martin Weiss (Nazi Official)
Martin Weiss (21 February 1903 – 30 September 1984) was a Nazi official and ''de facto'' commander of the Vilna Ghetto and a Holocaust perpetrator. He was also the commander of the notorious Nazi-sponsored '' Ypatingasis būrys'' killing squad, which was largely responsible for the Ponary massacre where approximately 100,000 people were shot. Early life and military service He was born to a well-to-do Protestant family in Karlsruhe. Weiss followed his father's steps and received education in plumbing and heating installation. He was an apprentice in his father's shop. From 1923–1927 Weiss lived in South America, helping his brother to establish a farm. After his father's death in 1928, Weiss took over the family business. Two years later he got married. Weiss and his wife had three children. He was not particularly interested in politics and joined Reiter SS, a branch of ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) that focused on horsemanship and equestrianism, in 1934. In 1937, he also joined ...
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Martin Gottfried Weiss
Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß ( – 29 May 1946), was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He also served from April 1940 until September 1942 as the commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp, and later, from November 1943 until May 1944, as the fourth commandant of Majdanek concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes. Life Weiss was born in Weiden in der Oberpfalz. His father worked for the Royal Bavarian State Railways. He had two sisters and was raised as a Catholic. After school he continued his education at a mechanical engineering school in Landshut. He finished school in 1924 and worked as intern in an ironworks. Later he worked for about three and a half years for the Upper Palatine electric company. In the summer of 1926 he joined the Nazi Party and founded a chapter of the SA and of the HJ with two friends in Weiden. Later he studied electrical engineering in Bad Frankenhausen, finishing ...
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Martin Weis
Martin Weis (born 25 December 1970) is a German former rower. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References External links * 1970 births Living people German male rowers Olympic rowers of Germany Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics People from Aschaffenburg Sportspeople from Lower Franconia {{Germany-rowing-bio-stub ...
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