ADDENDUM TO KM PERSONNEL FILE:
Soon after Wiener was born his family moved to the Wurst District of Frankfurt. Ottokar was the only son of Oscar M. and Hilda Wiener. His childhood was normal if not mundane or unremarkable. Early on Wiener showed absolutely no interest in sports or any outdoor activities of any kind. His main interests revolved around the creation and maintaining of a sizeable earthworm farm.
His father is employed in the industrial sanitation firm owned and operated by Ernst Crapp. Oscar Wiener drives an offal and refuse collection truck serving the local meat processing plants in the greater Frankfurt area. Complaints were filed against him by his neighbors alleging that an awful odor emanated from the Wiener home. Subsequent investigation revealed that the Wiener family was involved in an unlicensed, cash only, under the table sausage business commonly referred to as "Wiener's Sausage Fest" among Frankfurt's more colorful citizens. Surprisingly charges were not filed in the case. It is reported that the Wieners dodged prosecution by relinquishing the family recipe for spleen and testicle sausage to a local Wurster… Herbert Johnsonville; who then in turn bribed local law enforcement. Wiener's Sausage Fest continues operations.
Ottokar was an average student in both primary and secondary education. Continually but unsuccessfully trying to find ways to merge his love for sausage and worms to create a viable business career, Wiener's attention shifted to the Kriegsmarine. Thanks to the tragic loss of a significant number of officer candidates due to a mysterious food poisoning incident in March of 1934, Wiener is able to enter the officer training pipeline. He eventually shows himself to be a nearly capable cadet. Passing his exams by a virtually microscopic margin Wiener enters naval service and immediately volunteers for service in U Boats. He was quoted to have said, "I am naturally inclined toward service inside a tube." Another mysterious outbreak of apparent food poisoning preceded his acceptance. In the Ubootwaffe Wiener has blossomed into a capable if rather unimaginative officer and leader.