Rolf Weinberg (6 March 1919 – 23 June 2011) was a German-born Second World War veteran who fought with the Free French Forces.
His father was an Iron Cross decorated veteran of the Great War, and the director of the family's local chocolate factory.
In 1936, Weinberg's mother secured him the position of an apprentice in a knitting machine factory of a Jewish family in Stuttgart, where he gained experience in office administration.
Omitting his Jewish background and passing as a regular German immigrant, he was approached by the British Embassy and given the mission to feed false information to the crew of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee that an overwhelming British force was being assembled, and that it was futile to attempt to leave Montevideo Bay.
He fought on several fronts, including the North African Campaign, under the command of Marie Pierre Koenig,[2] and on the Gustav Line.