How The Swiss Passport Became Red – Swiss Passport History To have a passport seems to us to be obvious. But the little booklet has yet existed a little over 100 years. And it was only around 50 years ago…
Swissair Chief Pilot Passport – Aviation Pioneer Ernst Nyffenegger issued in 1945 Outstanding aviation document from the early beginning of the Swiss carrier – SWISSAIR! Today known as SWISS (which belongs to Lufthansa). I found another picture from Nyffenegger as…
Swiss Passport Issued By Swiss Poet and Politician Gottfried Keller Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry (German: Der grüne Heinrich), he became one of the most…
Passport of Magda Lutz – Wife of Swiss Diplomat Carl Lutz. CARL LUTZ will be forever remembered as the Swiss Diplomat who saved sixty-thousand Jewish life´s by issuing so-called SCHUTZBRIEFE (Protection Letters) in Budapest in 1944. Lutz divorced his first…
Swiss Passport issued in East Berlin, East Germany The Swiss / East Germany diplomatic relation began in Dec 1972 when Switzerland recognized East Germany (GDR) as independent state. The fist mission was just a trade mission and was opened in…
Rare Swiss Passport 1942 Issued In The Swiss Embassy Berlin This document is a rare testimony of Swiss citizens in Berlin / Germany during WWII. Learn more about the document itself, the Swiss Embassy in Berlin at those days and…
Third Reich Service Passport – Musicologist Prof. Schünemann Schünemann (1884 – 1945) , the son of a rector, received his doctorate after studying music in 1907 with his thesis on the history of conducting. After his habilitation in 1919 he…
Swiss History – A Helvetic Republic Passport 1798 In Swiss history, the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803) represented an early attempt to impose a central authority over Switzerland, which until then had consisted of self-governing cantons united by a loose military alliance…
British Passport Signed By Ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Baronet, GCB, GCMG, KCVO, PC (5 February 1869 – 24 May 1941) was a British diplomat. A well-traveled diplomat, learning Arabic, Japanese and German, he is…
Swiss Protection Letter 1945 Issued At The Swiss Consulate, Berlin When it comes to such Protection Letters I do have quite experience with such documents life saving for Jews during the Holocaust issued by several countries. But this type is…