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Alfonz Weiss de Csepel (1890-1985), industrialist, born in Budapest, Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary). He was a son of Manfred Weiss de Csepel, one of founders and owners of the first canning and later armaments factory in Hungary. Alfonz headed the Manfred Weiss Works and its welfare institutions after his father's death. During World War II  the works were turned to the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, and were the object of disastrous bombing attacks by the Soviet Air Force in 1942. Weiss was associate president of the Jewish Agricultural and Trade Association and an honorary member of the Assembly of the Jewish Community of Pest. In 1940 his wife headed an organization which was created to protect Jewish families against the destructive effects of the anti-Jewish laws in Hungary.