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RARE RIEM AIRPORT WORKER IDENTITY DOCUMENT
Nazi Ausweis München-Riem

NAZI ERA CONSTRUCTION
WORKER’S IDENTITY
DOCUMENT RIEM
AIRPORT MÜNCHEN
(MUNICH), GERMANY
1939
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 they knew they would need to replace the small, old, grass flying field, the “Oberwiesenfeld”, on the north side of downtown München, site of the 1972 Olympic Summer Games. One of Hitler’s favorite architects, Dr. Ing. Ernst Sagebiel, designed a new civilian traffic airport and began to build it near the Riem Horse Race Track, 15 minutes straight east of the city (Sagebiel also designed the Air Ministry for Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring in Berlin).
Nazi ID document
The new airport was called Flughafen München-Riem and it went into service in 1939. With the war, civilian traffic dwindled and Riem Airport was converted into a Luftwaffe Fighter air field. After World War II, München-Riem was one of the most modern airports in Europe, and was in continuous use (exterior war damage and all) until it was replaced in about 1990 by Franz-Josef-Strauss-Airport, and hours drive northeast of München.

The Riem airport identity document we offer here is a splendid piece of the history of München, the city widely known as the “Capital of the [Nazi] Movement”. It is Ausweis number 6809 dated 5 October 1939 in the name of Johann Geith, a 48 year old linoleum layer employed by the company building the airport.

München-Riem Wappenhalle
The dark-maroon squares of linoleum that Geith laid in the passenger terminal at Flughafen München-Riem were still covering the floor on the day the German government began to destroy the old Nazi airfield to make way for a modern erector set-style exhibition center.

According to information on the back side of this Third Reich ID, Geith was supposed to have surrendered it when his work for the Neubauleitung Flughafen München-Riem was completed. Somehow, he did not surrender it and another fascinating piece of mid-20th century history was saved from destruction!

Very good condition. This document is from the collection of Josephine & Ray Cowdery, authors of the full-color Third Reich identity document guidebook, “Papers Please!” For additional Third Reich era documents, click here.
This rare Third Reich document is
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