Hans Hermann Consul Weyer, Graf von Yorck is a German

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 trader in nobility

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 and academics titles, and a flamboyant member of the international jet set. He is a former window dresser

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 who became an honorary consul of Bolivia

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 in Luxembourg

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 and who became known in the 1960s for selling certificates of nobility, doctoral degrees from invented college

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s and universities, and other decorations in Germany

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. Jailed several times on fraud charges and described in 1982 by John Vinocur

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 of The New York Times

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 as "a Munich

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 rogue who sold phony titles" to "used-car dealers hungry for respectability", Weyer is given credit for Hans Lichtenberg

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's adoption in the latter's biographical profile in the cast list of the 2005 German reality-television program "Die Burg". Lichtenberg then married Zsa Zsa Gabor. According to the newspaper Rhein-Zeitung, Weyer was adopted as an adult, in 1996, by a Countess of Yorck and Wartenberg (Gräfin von Yorck und Wartenberg), a 78-year-old German noblewoman, and now uses the name Consul Weyer Graf von Yorck.