[2] In April 1936, Weiseborn took over the post of Schutzhaftlagerführer from Karl d'Angelo in Dachau.
[2] A Buchenwald survivor recalls that he "often punched inmates in the face or kicked them in the belly with his boot.
"[4] At the prisoner barracks in Buchenwald the following sentence was written: "In his anger God created Hauptsturmführer Weiseborn.
"[5] Weiseborn, a chronic alcoholic, became the first commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp beginning in May 1938 and remained so until January 1939.
On 20 January 1939 in Flossenbürg, Weiseborn committed suicide by drinking poison in his room, perhaps due to an investigation of his embezzlement at Buchenwald.