This article as written seems to imply that Deacon Weigel chose to get married  and was subsequently laicized (as punishment or whatever) and may have been surprised by it. This was surely not the case (assuming that he was married in the Church).
Since he was unable to get a dispensation he would have been forbidden to marry as an active Deacon. So he would have had to request that he be laicized of his own free will. 
It may seem a "distinction without a difference" in the end, but...