SS-Brigadeführer Christian Weber

Erich S · #16

Wow, something for everyone in that film!

J. Duncan · #17

Found the wikipedia article on Weber (see below - you have to click on the top "did you mean christian weber nazi" to open the file)...it also reports him having been killed "by insurrectionists" during the Bavarian "uprising". Their source is Schwarzwaller's "Unkown Hitler" (I wonder what HIS source was?). One wonders where these rumours originated yet they certainly stick over the years. There are so many myths to be disentangled. I find it interesting that he died in an automobile accident after having been captured. It would be nice to see a newspaper clipping, magazine article, or report stating such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Weber_(Nazi)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Weber_(Nazi)

trespasser07 · #18

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trespasser07 · #19

Gentlemen as ever your insight is indispensable. I may never have to buy another book on the Third Reich again thanks to these informative forums haha

Oberhessin · #20

Weber precisly died in the night from 10th to eleventh of May 1945 on the way from Ulm to Heilbronn.

jeffhan373 · #21

Weber was arrested by the members of Freiheitsaktion Bayern during the short-lived insurrection of April 1945, but came to no harm from them whatsoever, and was quickly freed after the action collapsed...

J. Duncan · #22

Excerpt from "I Knew Hitler" by Kurt G W Ludecke. Passage is on Christian Weber (pgs. 94-95):

"Weber was one of the Party's original members, and among its most effective bouncers. A former horse-trader, a typical Munich roughneck, good hearted and naive, but of colassal nerve and strength in the Nazi cause, he was usually at Hitler's side when the air was thick and special protection was necessary. He was an immense mountain of a man, almost broader than tall, an extraordinary sight when he wore leather shorts and a Tyrolean hat sporting a dashing chamois tuft. His face was adorned by an immense Kaiser mustache and he fancied himself as a lady-killer. But his social life consisted chiefly in drinking endless seidel's of beer when someone would stand treat."

On having lunch with Göring in Salzburg (pgs. 179-180):

"The day of my departure we lunched together. His mind was focussed on the food, which he ordered in enormous portions and stowed away methodically, easing it down with long draughts of wine. At one moment during this stuffing performance, Frau Göring was called from the table, leaving us alone. The captain's jaws still moved up and down, but I saw an expression of pleasant anticipation come into his eyes. Then he shifted his bulk in the chair, lifted one buttock, and gave vent to a thunderous explosion. "You'll pardon me won't you?" he asked, seeing my startled frown-and a second voley followed the first. On reflection, I decided to credit him with some delicacy. Who would have expected him to wait until his wife was out of range?"

JonFish · #23

Does anyone have anything further on Weber, I am really interested in photographs of the man.

Igor Karpov · #24

Christian Weber.

Regards,
Igor

DavidFrankenberg · #25

Weber had lost an eye, maybe during WWI or during a fight in Munich ?
As already said, he was one of the first around Hitler in Munich. As bodyguard he was responsible of the security of the 9 November commemorations every year till 1938. After the Elser bombing, he was subbed.
Weber was powerful in Munich. He was rich. He was involved in horse things. Many of his guys were in the SS and high ranking, like Fegelein the most famous maybe.
His relationship with Hitler never faded, even after 1938. His business was always very good. During the war, when horses' races were forbidden everywhere in Germany in the name of war effort, Hitler insisted that Weber would keep on organizing his own races in Theresienwiese.

He was killed during a car crash. He was under US responsibility, being transferred to another jail.

Weber died in 1945 after being arrested by the United States Army near Starnberg. He was one of a number of prisoners being carried in an open-backed lorry, which overturned. Weber suffered fatal injuries in the accident.[18] His body was interred in a mass grave at Heilbronn.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian ... S_general)