A Photo ID From the 11th Hour of the 11th Month

[Guest Rick Research]

This large, well-made, hard mock leatherette booklet-- of a size that would have covered a WW2 Wehrpass or Soldbuch...

[Guest Rick Research]

...contains a photo ID issued by the Home Establishment of the Bavarian IIIrd Army Corps at Nuremberg

on 11 November 1918

attesting that Leutnant der Reserve (of a 2 digit infantry regiment which is too fuzzy to make out) Matth?us Schabert, born 2 November 1889 in Brachstadt bei Donauw?rth, of Bavarian nationality, is the person shown and whose signature is below.

This is obviously a laissez-passer for the stellv. Genkdo. III. B.A.K. headquarters.

The war might have ended, but demobilization and revolution were at hand.

[Guest Rick Research]

Shared from a local collection. This was ACTUALLY, I kiddeth thou NOT, sold by an ahem well-known auction house as "photo ID of a Black German officer."

[Gerd Becker]

Were all these ID?s from WW1 in this quality or is this some kind of Luxury-version?

Nice. I don?t remember seeing one of these before.

He looks like a friend of mine

Edited April 5, 2006 by Gerd Becker

[Daniel Murphy]

OMG, he is wearing his silver wound badge superior to his EK1. I know he was an officer and should have known better, so how he got away with it is beyond me. As far as the document, this is consistent with an A-H Aviation officers documents I have.

Dan Murphy

Edited April 6, 2006 by Daniel Murphy

[Chris Boonzaier]

Were all these ID?s from WW1 in this quality or is this some kind of Luxury-version?

They gave him the paper... he put it in the cover of his choice.

Best

Chris

[Paul R]

Look at how shiny the EK1 is!