Danzig Nazi Document Grouping

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DANZIG NAZI AUSWEIS GROUPING

A GROUP OF 7 IDENTITY DOCUMENTS ISSUED IN
FREIE STADT DANZIG

The historic German Hanseatic city of Danzig (now Gdansk in Poland) was east across the Polish Corridor to the Baltic Sea from the bulk of Großdeutschland (Greater Germany) until September of 1939, when Adolf Hitler took back the territory Germany had lost to Poland at the end of World War I.

During the early Nazi period citizens of Danzig lived quite separate lives from the rest of Germans because they could not cross to the west easily. The Reichsautobahn stopped at the Corridor. Although all Nazi institutions and paramilitary organizations like the SS, SA, HJ, NSKK, etc. were present in the Free City of Danzig it was not until the elimination of the Polish Corridor that it once again became simply Danzig.

All of the documents offered in this lot were the property of one man, Hellmuth Baumann who was born in Aachen on 26 August 1912. He lived in Luckenwalde and Danzig-Langfuhr and was a sports reporter for the Danziger Tageblatt newspaper.

The documents in this grouping include several that are virtually never encountered. One is the extremely rare Schriftleiter Ausweis issued by the Reichsverband der deutschen Presse of the Reichskulturkammer (RKK) on 30 September 1938, with an interesting embossed cover. It contains a photograph of Baumann and validity stamps for 1937, 1938 and 1939. Another interesting document is the very rare bright red Presse Dauerausweis (Annual Press Pass) number 59 for 1934 issued by Freie Stadt Danzig. Yet another is the Erkennungskarte für Studierende (Identity Card for Post-Graduates) issued by the Technische Hochschule (a college, not a high school) of the Free City of Danzig. It shows that Baumann did postgraduate work there in the summer and winter semesters of 1933-34.

Also included in this unusual Nazi document grouping is Baumann’s Deutsches Reich Reisepass (domestic and foreign passport shown left) issued 5 November 1938 by the Police Secretary in Luckenwalde. It is stamped on the last page with rare Polizei-Revier stamps from Freie Stadt Danzig. There is a membership card in the organization Arbeits Dank which records Baumann’s service in 1935 and 1936.

Finally, there is a Pflichtenheft (Duty Booklet) for the Studenten Arbeitsdienst of the Deutschen Studentenschaft issued 11 July 1934 in Danzig which comes with a tan card showing Baumann completed his obligatory student labor service.

All this rare Freie Stadt Danzig identity material is in good or better condition. We call your attention to what appears to be damage to the photo on the pink Erkennungskarte. The upper layer of the photo has peeled along the edges away from the white photographic paper. There is a photograph on page 4 of the Presse Dauerausweis and the top edge of it and the lower left corner are torn away. Baumann’s face is still there.

This rare Nazi document grouping is
**SOLD**.

Also for sale on the USM website, the rare 3-D photo book Danzig - Werden
und Behauptung einer deutschen Stadt printed in 1940, 10,000 limited edition.

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