Bernhard Weiß

German police chief (1880-1951) · Germany · Lawyers · Died at 70

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Bernhard Weiss was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic.

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Bernhard Weiss

Bernhard Weiss (center) with Magnus Heimannsberg (left), and Albert Grzesinski (right) at the funeral of murdered police officers Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck, 1931

Memorial Plaque in Berlin-Charlottenburg

Memorial Plaque at Weiss's home at Kaiserdamm 1, in Berlin-Charlottenburg

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Iron Cross

About this person

Bernhard Weiss was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic. A member of the liberal Deutsche Demokratische Partei, Weiss was known as a key player in the political tensions during the Weimar Republic and a staunch defender of parliamentary democracy against extremists on the left and right.

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Germany

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