Passport of the German Democratic Republic

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GDR passport

The passport of the German Democratic Republic was a travel document issued to citizens of the German Democratic Republic for international travel. This passport was a sovereign document, the design of which was regulated in the Passport Act of the German Democratic Republic.

Since the accession of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany , this has been replaced by the passport of the Federal Republic of Germany and becomes invalid at the end of 1995.

In 1989 around four million GDR citizens were in possession of a passport. This was due to the fact that, for many private trips to socialist countries, an identity card with a travel system was usually sufficient for visa-free travel . The passports were produced until 1990 at the VEB Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei in Leipzig.

format

The passport of the GDR was blue and had a gold-colored embossing on the front with the national coat of arms of the German Democratic Republic and the text Passport and German Democratic Republic . It had 24 or 48 pages and was 15 × 10 cm in size. Until about the mid-1980s, the passports were made as hardcover in four languages ​​(German, French, Russian and English), then as softcover in three languages ​​without the English. The page layout contained up to page six personal details, the date of validity, registered children, passport extensions and the area of ​​validity, mostly with the stamp “Valid for all states and West Berlin”. Then the entries for the visas were made .

In addition, diplomatic passports were issued in red, service passports and aliens' passports in green.

Web links

Commons : Passports of the German Democratic Republic  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Passport law of the GDR (1954). In: verfassungen.de , accessed on July 9, 2020
  2. ^ Passport law of the GDR (1979). In: verfassungen.de , accessed on July 9, 2020
  3. ↑ GDR passports are only valid until the end of the year. In: New Germany . January 28, 1995, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  4. ^ Siegfried Suckut, Walter Suess: State Party and State Security: On the relationship between SED and MfS . Ch. Links Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86284-040-3 , p. 277 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Ordinance on trips abroad by GDR citizens (1988). In: verfassungen.de , accessed on July 13, 2020
  6. ↑ Ulrich Milde: Giesecke & Devrient - securities printing company expands Leipzig plant. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. September 16, 2016, accessed July 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ Passport of the German Democratic Republic In: Runde-ecke-leipzig.de , accessed on July 14, 2020
  8. ^ Service passport of the German Democratic Republic In: Runde-ecke-leipzig.de , accessed on July 14, 2020
  9. ↑ Alien passport of the German Democratic Republic In: Runde-ecke-leipzig.de , accessed on July 14, 2020