According to the 1860 census, Henry Weirdenbach lived in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
Perhaps it was his actual name. Could have been a typo. Might have been a descriptive flourish by the census taker…the truth is lost to history…
Lita Weidenbach is an actress who played the role of “Rell” in the 2004 film, The Big Bounce, starring Owen Wilson, Charlie Sheen, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, and Willie Nelson (awesome.) It got a 16% splat on RottenTomatoes.com (not so awesome.)
Adam Weidenbach played the role of “Coffee Shop Loser #2″ in the 2001 short film, One Angry Dwarf. Sadly, this movie is not available at Amazon or Netflix, and has no reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, but I did find a few angry dwarves on YouTube.
Uli Weidenbach, economist and sociologist, screenwriter and freelance journalist, directed the documentary Black September – The Olympic Murderer Munich ’72 – True Story (Deutschland: Schicksalsstunden – Von der Wannseekonferenz bis zur Wiedervereinigung), which is available for purchase…in German (with English subtitles!) reviews are mixed, but I can’t read them.
One more city named Weidenbach! This Weidenbach is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.
I can’t find much about this city online. It’s not as visible as the other two Weidenbachs. If anybody can help, please drop me a line.
Jan Weidenbach has 12 children and 2 grandchildren (a Weidenbach record?) She says faith and having a sense of humor is paramount to raising a family, “Because if you don’t, the stress may do you in.”
Almost true. Three years ago she thought she was suffering from food poisoning, but doctors confirmed that she had suffered two heart attacks. Now she says “I pick my battles and give the rest to someone else.” That’s when having 12 kids around is handy…delegating tasks *should be* easier with that much help.
Jan just turned 50 on Mother’s Day 2010. Happy Birthday, Jan! Say “Hi” to Ammelia, Janna, Nickolas, Amber, Alana, Antonia, Luke, Ammanda, David, Jacob, Joshua, Matheu, Jon Paul, & Craig!
Back in 2007, Wade Weidenbach and his business partner, Scotty Bowman, partners in the Dirty Deeds fishing team, caught a 609-pound, 11-foot-long Mako shark.
“We were goofing off, you know, catching redfish. When he swam by he went past the boat and turned around, came back to the boat. Then I walked from the helm station and stood up on the bow and looked over and realized what he was. His eyes rolled up and looked at me, and I looked at him and I said, ‘MAKO’! We lost sight of him, found him again, and threw a chunk of bait at him – one of the redfish we had caught – and he scarfed it up. It was game on after that”, Bowman said.
According to Weidenbach, “We got the life jackets out and crossed our fingers. Mako are real bad about jumping in the boat – you’ve got to be very careful with them.”
Game on, indeed.
They gaffed the shark when he came to the surface. Four shots from a shotgun (under the surface) only succeeded in splintering the barrel of the gun, but didn’t stop the shark. After 3 1/2 hours of fighting, they headed home with a shark over half as long as their 17′ Cape Horn craft.
What do you do with a 9-foot shark once you catch it? Wade and Scotty cut it up and ate it.
Cap’n Wade now runs Down Stream Fishing Charters and does, in fact, now own a bigger boat.
Chief Warrant Officer Edward Joseph Weidenbach of Nampa, ID was a helicopter pilot in the 1st CAV in Vietnam. He was there just over two months and died on May 5, 1967 in Binh Dinh Province. He was 42 years old. (Ironically and unintentionally, I got around to posting this on May 5 2010…exactly 43 years later.)
Weidenbach Hall, renovated and named after John Peter (Jack) Weidenbach in 1994, is the home of the University of Michigan’s Athletic Administration. John joined the Athletic Department in 1988 as senior associate director of athletics, became interim director in 1990 and director in 1991. His Michigan teams won 18 Big Ten championships.
Cool Link: View Weidenbach Hall!
(Follow the link, click “Street View” under the pic in the balloon. Up pops a panoramic view of the intersection! Look to the southwest, and you’ll see Weidenbach Hall!
American General Charles Willoughby claimed to have been born “Adolf Karl von Tscheppe-Weidenbach”, son of a German nobleman (unprovable, probably untrue) and an American mother (again, questionable.) He also, at times, claimed to have been an orphan who never knew his parents, and at other times claimed he was the son of the American Consul in Heidelberg.
He immigrated to the US and joined the Army, rising to the rank of Sergeant and being honorably discharged in 1913. He then returned to Europe and claimed to have studied in Germany and France, although there is no evidence that this actually happened. He then attended Gettysburg College and was a teacher for three years, during which time he was identified by the government as a potential pro-German sympathizer. His testimonies regarding this period are in the records of the FBI.
Despite this, he re-enlisted as a Lieutenant, rose to the rank of Captain, and served in WWI. At some point, he changed his name to Charles Willoughby, although nobody can say how or when this happened. Despite his new lease on life, he was recalled back to the US in 1917, again under suspicion of spying and having pro-German sentiments. He was also a huge fan of Benito Mussolini, and his remarks at the time indicate that he was something of a white supremacist and a supporter of McCarthyist anti-communism.
Apparently, this wasn’t a huge problem and he used the inter-war years to work his way up the military ladder to become a Major-General and Chief of Intelligence to General Douglas MacArthur (who referred to him as “My Little Fascist”) during WWII and the Korean War. He was holding this position during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is also speculated that his influence on the decisions during Korea were misleading and caused a great loss of life, although it is unclear whether his actions were intentional, misguided, or simply foolhardy.
Even stranger…Two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy a long-distance telephone operator in Mexico City monitored an international phone call. She heard one of the voices saying: “The Castro plan is being carried out. Bobby is next.” The telephone numbers were traced. One number belonged to Emilio Nunez Portuondo, the Latin American Affairs editor of Willoughby’s Foreign Intelligence Digest.
After retiring, he became an advisor to Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco, for whom Willoughby had professed great admiration over the years, and was involved with right-wing anti-communist groups. He died in 1972 in Naples, Florida.
Weird.
Based at Pearl Harbor, the USS Scorpion (SS-278), a submarine, departed Midway on January 3, 1944 headed toward the East China and Yellow Seas with Rudolf F. Weidenbach on board. After an unsuccessful rendezvous with the USS Herring a few days later, she was lost and never heard from again.
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