Hans Hermann Weyer

Hans Hermann Weyer is a a former window dresser who became an honorary consul of Bolivia in Luxembourg [ [http://www.bodokirchhoff.de/dermantel.html Bodo Kirchhoff : Der Mantel des schönen Konsuls ] ] and who became known in the 1960s for selling certificates of nobility, doctoral degrees from invented colleges and universities, and other decorations in Germany. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9A00E2DD143BF933A15755C0A964948260 New York Times article mentioning Weyer's career, 1982] ] [John Vinocur, "For German Who 'Awarded' Titles, First Gold, Then Bars", The New York Times, 16 March 1978, page A2] Jailed several times on fraud charges and 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 Lichtenberg's adoption in the latter's biographical profile in the cast list of the 2005 German reality-television program "Die Burg". [ [http://film.aol.de/TV-sp-Burg/Frederic-Prinz-Anhalt-1896019317-0.html Cast List for "Die Burg"] ] [John Vinocur, "A Republic of Fear: Thirty Years of General Stroessner's Paraguay", The New York Times Magazine, 23 September 1984, page 20] According to the newspaper Rhein-Zeitung, Weyer was adopted as an adult, in 1996, by a Countess of Yorck of Wartenberg (Gräfin von Yorck von Wartenberg), a 78-year-old German noblewoman, and now uses the name Consul Weyer Graf von Yorck. [ [http://www.consulweyer.de/ Consul Weyer Graf von Yorck's website] ] [ [http://rhein-zeitung.de/96/10/11/ges/pan/00007102.html Abstract of Rhein-Zeitung article about Weyer's adoption] ]

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