Bessant and Watts (2007) - Sociology Australia - 3rd edn p.82. said:
He suffered from psychotic and depressive disorders which developed after the death of his bullying father. He had an apparently adoring wife, who accepted the lack of sex in the marriage. He avoided university teaching whenever he could, though he was highly regarded as a charismatic public speaker. Weber could also be a bully, who sued and threatened duels with anyone who criticised him. He enthusiastically supported Germany’s declaration of war in 1914 … Most of his biographers point to a series of unresolved tensions and contradictions … which are reflected in his social theory and research … An atheist and secularist he pointed to the continuing role of religious values and practices. Likewise he admired the achievements of nineteenth century science and rationality but spoke passionately about how we all now live in an iron cage of ‘rationality.’” … He hated Marxism and started (but never completed) an enormous study of capitalist social and economic processes so as to come up with an alternative account.