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This is Charles Douglas Wehner in Berlin.
"Wehner" seems to be the plural of "Wehn", in the Prussian language - which fell into disuse in about 1600. Wehn is a friend. Wehner means friends, if my information is correct.
There seem to be 60,000 to 100,000 Wehners in the world.
Wehn and Wehner are fairly common names in Prussia (the east of Germany), and in Saxony next door. The late politician Herbert Wehner informed me that his family came from Saxony.
My great-grandfather was Carl Wehner. He built many of the railways of central Europe, and owned one. He lived in Breslau, now Wroclav. It seems that the steel industrialist von Posadowki-Wehner was connected (perhaps a cousin).
My grandfather was Heinrich Wehner, chief engineer of the water-and-shipping office, Frankfurt/Main.
My father was Dr. Carl Heinrich Wehner, a foreign correspondent for the German-language press (German, Belgian, and Swiss mainly). He was the German representative at the Foreign Press Association, London.
I was born in internment at Port Erin, Isle of Man, on 4 May 1944. My mother was Johanna Mathilde (née Bilgery). My name was anglicised to Charles Henry, but with the name of the capital of the Isle of Man (Douglas) sandwiched in the middle.
Regards
CDW
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