German Reich Document Group - Reisepass, Border Passes and NSV Identification Card of Max Laumen,...
A Deutsches Reich Reisepass (travel passport) issued to Max Laumen and his wife Elisabeth Laumen of Duesseldorf, dated 31 March 1936, with photographs of both holders, personal description page, and eagle/swastika stamps. Accompanying the passport are two Durchlassschein (border/frontier crossing permits) issued at Pilsen in the Protektorat Boehmen und Maehren, Nr. C1153 to Max Laumen and Nr. g10 82 to Elisabeth Laumen, each bearing Oberlandrat Pilsen stamps and eagle devices, valid for travel across the frontier of the Protectorate in 1941. Also present is an orange NS-Volkswohlfahrt Personal-Ausweis, Gau Duesseldorf, Nr. 170 42, issued to Max Laumen identifying him as a Blockwalter for Dienststelle Derendorf-Nord, with photograph, signatures, and stamps of the NSDAP Kreisleitung.
Together the documents trace an individual's civil identification, family record, and travel movements between Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the period, alongside his role within the NS-Volkswohlfahrt welfare organization in Duesseldorf.
This document group reflects the bureaucratic apparatus of civilian life under the Third Reich, spanning peacetime international travel to wartime administration of occupied territory. The Reisepass, issued in 1936, predates the establishment of the Protektorat Boehmen und Maehren, created in March 1939 following the German occupation of the Czech lands, while the 1941 Durchlassscheine issued at Pilsen document the controlled cross-border movement required between the Reich and the Protectorate under its Oberlandrat administration. The NSV (NS-Volkswohlfahrt) Personal-Ausweis identifies Max Laumen as a Blockwalter, a low-level volunteer functionary responsible for welfare and party-social oversight of a residential block within the NSDAP's local Kreisleitung structure in Duesseldorf, reflecting the organisation's role in coordinating social welfare, propaganda, and surveillance at the neighbourhood level.
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A Deutsches Reich Reisepass (travel passport) issued to Max Laumen and his wife Elisabeth Laumen of Duesseldorf, dated 31 March 1936, with photographs of both holders, personal description page, and eagle/swastika stamps. Accompanying the passport are two Durchlassschein (border/frontier crossing permits) issued at Pilsen in the Protektorat Boehmen und Maehren, Nr. C1153 to Max Laumen and Nr. g10 82 to Elisabeth Laumen, each bearing Oberlandrat Pilsen stamps and eagle devices, valid for travel across the frontier of the Protectorate in 1941. Also present is an orange NS-Volkswohlfahrt Personal-Ausweis, Gau Duesseldorf, Nr. 170 42, issued to Max Laumen identifying him as a Blockwalter for Dienststelle Derendorf-Nord, with photograph, signatures, and stamps of the NSDAP Kreisleitung.
Together the documents trace an individual's civil identification, family record, and travel movements between Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the period, alongside his role within the NS-Volkswohlfahrt welfare organization in Duesseldorf.
This document group reflects the bureaucratic apparatus of civilian life under the Third Reich, spanning peacetime international travel to wartime administration of occupied territory. The Reisepass, issued in 1936, predates the establishment of the Protektorat Boehmen und Maehren, created in March 1939 following the German occupation of the Czech lands, while the 1941 Durchlassscheine issued at Pilsen document the controlled cross-border movement required between the Reich and the Protectorate under its Oberlandrat administration. The NSV (NS-Volkswohlfahrt) Personal-Ausweis identifies Max Laumen as a Blockwalter, a low-level volunteer functionary responsible for welfare and party-social oversight of a residential block within the NSDAP's local Kreisleitung structure in Duesseldorf, reflecting the organisation's role in coordinating social welfare, propaganda, and surveillance at the neighbourhood level.
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