Hans-Hermann Weyer-Graf von Yorck (22 April 1938 – 15 August 2023) was a German title dealer. In the media he is usually referred as ''Konsul Weyer'', and he himself appears as ''Consul Weyer Graf von Yorck.''
Life and career
Weyer was born and raised in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
. 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
In journalism, jet set is a term for an international social group of wealthy people who travel the world to participate in social activities unavailable to ordinary people. The term, which replaced "café society", came from the lifestyle of tra ...
. 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
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (; 3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan army officer and politician who served as President of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 to 3 February 1989.
Stroessner led a coup d'état on 4 May 1954 with t ...
.
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
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...
, but he also has other residences and owns, among other things, a private island.
For a short time, Weyer made headlines as chairman and candidate for chancellor of the ''Deutsche Freiheitspartei'' (DFP), founded in Munich on 18 November 1979.
According to its own information, the party had 26,000 members.
The DFP ran in the 1980 Bundestag election with only one direct candidate in the constituency of Freising and received 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
[In the 1990s, for example, he was confronted by social scientist and publicist ]Jutta Ditfurth
Jutta Gerta Armgard von Ditfurth (born 29 September 1951) is a German sociologist, writer, and radical ecologist politician. Born into the noble house of Ditfurth, members of which had been noble ministeriales invested with hereditary administra ...
on the late-night NDR talk show ''Visavis'': 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.
Works
* ''Zypern heute''. Weyer/Austria 1967.
* ''Schwarz-rot-goldene Titelträger. Ein indiskretes Handbuch für die große Karriere''. Munich 1971 (together with Joachim Hemmann and Richard Kerler)
* ''Ich, der schöne Consul. Karrieren für die Wunderkinder''. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7770-0426-X.
Records
* ''C’est La Vie, Ma Chérie · Du hast so lange nicht gelacht''
* ''Von Hamburg nach Hawaii'' (only shown on cover)
TV
* ''Titel, Orden, Consulate'' (RTL, 1991, 8 episodes)
Literature
*
References
External links
*
consulweyer.com*
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1938 births
2023 deaths
German socialites
Businesspeople from Munich
Adult adoptees