Gero Wecker

Gero Wecker (1923–1974) was a German film producer.^[1] In the post-Second World War era he produced populist entertainment films for the West German market.

Gero Wecker
Born	22 April 1923 Göttingen, Weimar Republic
Died	24 June 1974(1974-06-24) (aged 51) West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation	Producer
Years active	1955–1974 (film)

Career

Wecker founded Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH in 1953. The company was based in Göttingen, Germany.

Selected filmography

• The Immenhof Girls (1955)
• Three Girls from the Rhine (1955)
• Without You All Is Darkness (1956)
• The Mad Bomberg (1957)
• The Girl Without Pyjamas (1957)
• Different from You and Me (1957)
• Court Martial (1959)
• Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960)
• The White Spider (1963)
• The Twins from Immenhof (1973)
• Spring in Immenhof (1974)

Personal

In August 1947, Wecker married Carola Bornée (born 1924), with whom he had two daughters, Cornelia (born 1948) and Angela (born 1952). Gero and Carola divorced in 1961. Gero Wecker then, in the 1960s, married actress Karin Jacobsen, with whom he had a daughter, Michaela (born 1967). Wecker and Jacobson divorced.