Lawyer and Vice President of the Berlin police from 1927-1932. He was known as a key player in the political tensions during the Weimar Republic and a staunch defender of parliamentary democracy against extremists on the left and right. While in office, he was the target of a constant campaign of vilification organized by Joseph Goebbels, then a prominent Nazi activist, later the Reich Minister of Propaganda. Goebbels nicknamed him "Isidore" and the Weimar Republic as "The Jew's Republic". He sued Goebbels for libel and won his case. Goebbels did not refrain and he was not intimidated so in the end he sued Goebbels over and over. After the 1932 Prussian coup d'état, he and his superior were forcefully removed from office and arrested for a short period, but later released. After the Nazis finally seized control, they issued an arrest warrant for him and Hermann Göring offered to pay a reward for anyone who assisted in his capture. He and his wife managed to escape to Prague and then London, where he opened a printing and stationery business and lived out the remainder of his life. After his escape, Weiss was subsequently deprived of his German citizenship on Aug. 23rd 1933. In 1951, shortly before becoming a German citizen again, he died of cancer in London. His widow, Lotte Weiß (née Buss), returned to live in Berlin after her husband's death. She died there shortly after on July 29th 1952. The film "The Man who chased Goebbels" (2005) by Reiner Mathias Brueckner portrays him as a resolute defender of the republican order. In 2007, the German Federation of Jewish soldiers established an award in his honor, the Bernhard Weiss Medal (Bernhard-Weiß-Medaille), to be awarded to fellow Germans who work for understanding and tolerance. The forecourt at the Friedrichstrasse station in Berlin and the Alexanderplatzstrasse in central Berlin were named after Bernhard Weiss. A plaque has been erected outside the Berlin house where he lived.