The Passport of East German Minister for Ore Mining I still collect East German (GDR) passports whenever I find them interesting and affordable but that you find passports of former government members is truly rare. Here comes one of them. Kurt…
A East German Passport – Wolf Biermann – Singer-Songwriter-Dissident Karl Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song “Ermutigung” and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976.…
One of the very last East German passports issued in July 1990 The passport history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) is a brief one, but most interesting. While the GDR released it’s first passport act only in 1955, six…
For the freedom one may even fake passports – escaping East Germany By today, February 6, 2018 The Berlin Wall stood for 10,361 days, and 10,361 days ago today it fell. Let’s work together to preserve the things that unite rather…
With GDR passport: The first Ossi in Majorca, Spain. After almost 28 years he remembers a moment in Majorca. The 20-year-old GDR citizen Tiemo Schönwald, together with his girlfriend and two journalists from “Stern”, is sitting in the courtyard of…
East German passports were still valid after Germany’s reunification. Yes, you are reading correctly – East German (GDR) passports were still valid… even when the German Democratic Republic of Germany became obsolete on 3 Oct 1990! That sounds strange and…
One of the earliest German Democratic Republic passports! East German passport are part of my archive and collection. The first passport act was released by Wilhelm Pieck, President of the German Democratic Republic in September 1954. However, this is the…
East German Diplomatic Passport Of Schalck-Golodkowski. Parts of the estate of the former GDR currency trader Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski’s estate were auctioned off in Hamburg for around EUR 70,000. We are very pleased with the balance sheet,”said the auction house. The…
Diplomatic Passport Of East Germany’s Minister Of State Security (STASI) This is the East German Diplomatic Passport of Erich Mielke (December 28, 1907 – May 21, 2000) a German Communist politician and Minister of State Security of the German Democratic…