David Friedrich Weber founded a company that traded successfully with South America.
Hermann Anthony Cornelius Weber's sister married Carl Woermann.
He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until graduating from high school at Easter 1843[1] and studied law in Bonn, Berlin, and Heidelberg.
On December 17, 1860, he was elected to the Hamburg Senate, where he remained a member until his death.
As a senator, he was primarily responsible for the Hamburg judicial administration, which he significantly reformed.