Nazi Ancestry Document of HJ Boy

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UNUSUAL NAZI THIRD REICH FAMILY HISTORY

THE COMPLETE NAZI AHNENPASS
OF A BOY FROM MUENCHEN
COMPLETE WITH FOUR
GENERATIONS OF PHOTOGRAPHS

Most people familiar with the period know of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and his passion for genealogy, heredity and all aspects of the historical racial make-up of the German people. The interest of Hitler and Himmler was the driving force behind the flourishing genealogy societies and genealogical research in Nazi Germany.

After 1933 it became very fashionable in Nazi Germany to do the research to complete a four generation Ahnenpaß or Ancestry Document, the minimum required for entry into the SS. Most Ahnenpässe are pretty dull documents entirely filled with names, dates and official stamps. This one is different.

The booklet used to record the data about the ancestors of Rainer Otto Hartlmaier of Passing in suburban München (Munich), Germany was published by Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark, is a much nice document than most.

Called ,,Meine Ahnen’’ (My Ancestry), it bears an interesting logo of an oak tree growing out of a circle and closing a swastika. The booklet is dedicated to Rainer Hartlmaier by his mother and father and was their gift to him when he was 3 years old in 1935.

Page 3 has a picture of the three year old and his basic data as well as photos of his sisters Edith and Ingrid at the bottom. A much later entry in blue ink on the page shows Rainer Hartlmaier’s date of death as 24 October 1985 when he was not quite 53 years old.

The next pages show Hartlmaier’s mother and father and provide all the pertinent data about their lives, handwritten in blueish ink by the father, Adolf Hartlmaier.

Subsequent pages show uniform size pictures of all four of Rainer Hartlmaier’s grandparents as well as their parents with all data including siblings, place of burial, etc. The documents date back as far as 1831.

Making this Ahnenpaß even more special are the photographs and clippings included in the black folder that holds the 6 x 8-1/4 inch, 12 page booklet.

They show Rainer Hartlmaier in a Hitler Youth uniform at about 10 years of age (the photo was taken in Bad Reichenhall near Berchtesgaden) and later in 1949. Six other photos show Hartlmaier’s father in a Nazi navy officer’s uniform during the war and one of his grandfather in an Imperial German naval uniform. There is even a newspaper notice of Rainer Otto Hartlmaier’s death in 1985.

This is the only complete Ahnenpass of this sort that we have ever seen out of the thousands we have examined. Very good condition.

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