[1] He attended the Brno University of Technology, Czechoslovakia followed by Swiss Polytechnic Institute, Zürich.
Whilst sitting in his room at 3 Bedford Square reading the telephone directory he came across the name of László Moholy-Nagy.
In 1943 he moved on to the United States where he started working for Charles Wohlstetter designing modular aircraft hangars that could be assembled quickly.
With Charles' brother Albert Wohlstetter and Weidlinger worked at the United States Housing Authority applying these modular principles to domestic residential buildings.
[5] He and his first wife, Madeleine (née Freidli, d. mid-1970s), had a son Tom, born c. 1953, and an older daughter.