Wolfgang Weber (journalist)

His father, Friedrich Weber, was a wealthy factory owner[1] who decided to quit business to follow his main interests in taking over the management of the Research Institute for Ethnology in Munich.

Erich von Hornborstel, professor at the Phonetic Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin, appointed Weber as an assistant and sent him on a music-ethnographic research trip to East Africa to the tribe of the Wadjaggas on Kilimanjaro.

[3] Alongside[5] Felix H. Man, Erich Salomon, Martin Munkácsi and Alfred Eisenstaedt, Wolfgang Weber[6] is considered a pioneer[3] of modern photojournalism,[1] as it was established in Germany around 1920.

[7] His subject area included reports on the social, political and economic situation at home and abroad, to the publication of which he also contributed the texts and the layout.

[9] In 1931 the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung published the impressive sozial report “Dorf ohne Arbeit” (village without work) on the situation of German unemployed people in 1933 “The trial that the world is listening to” about the trial against van der Lubbe after the Reichstag fire, and in 1936 “The Olympic Stadium is filling up".