Franz Oppenhoff was the head of the Department of Germanic Studies at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. A true adherent to Nazism, Oppenhoff was quite offended by Susanna Weiss' independence of will and scholarship, believing she should be a good Hausfrau rather than an academician. Nevertheless, he allowed her to attend the Medieval English Association's annual meeting in London, and queried her on her take on the political situation among the British Union of Fascists, as well as the direction Führer Heinz Buckliger intended to take Germany.