Hans Hermann Weyer

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. [1]

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".[2] 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 made headlines as chairman and candidate for chancellor of the Deutsche Freiheitspartei (DFP), founded in Munich on 18 November 1979.[3] According to its own information, the party had 26,000 members.[4] 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[5] 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.[6]

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
  • "Der Dekorateur", Der Spiegel, 22 December, 1990

References
  1. Imprint of his website
  2. "Consul Weyer Graf von Yorck".
  3. "PERSONALIEN: Rudolf Hanauer, Hans Herrmann Weyer, Eduard Pestel, Heribert Burkert, Volker Hauff", Der Spiegel, 26 November 1979
  4. "PERSONALIEN: Hans Hermann Weyer", Der Spiegel, 1 September 1980
  5. In the 1990s, for example, he was confronted by social scientist and publicist Jutta Ditfurth on the late-night NDR talk show Visavis: "Talk-Shows: Gehen ist Gold", Der Spiegel, 1 February 1993
  6. "Der letzte Paradiesvogel: Trauer um Konsul Hans-Hermann Weyer". AZ. 18 August 2023. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
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