Martin Gottfried Weiss was born on the 3rd June 1905 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz then part of the German Empire.
Weiss had two sisters and was raised as a Catholic. After school, he pursued further education in mechanical engineering, which he finished in 1924 and worked as intern in an ironworks. During the summer of 1926, Weiss became a member of the Nazi Party and, together with two friends in his hometown, established local branches of the SA and the Hitlerjugend, which were the Nazi paramilitary and youth organizations, respectively.
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