Original WWII German Wandergewerbeschein ID Document – Itinerant Trade Permit – Odd TR ID

Description

Historical Context: These licenses were required in Nazi Germany for people conducting door-to-door or traveling trade, ensuring state control and taxation of small-scale and itinerant merchants. Such documents were tightly regulated and part of the wider Nazi bureaucratic system. It also allowed authorities to keep track of traveling individuals at a time when movement was highly monitored.

Wandergewerbeschein (Itinerant Trade Permit).

Year: 1940 (stated as “Nur für das Jahr 1940” – “Only valid for the year 1940”).

Number: Nr. 75 (a unique serial/license number).

Authority: Issued by the Landrat (District Administrator) of Offenbach am Main, with an official stamp featuring the Nazi Reichsadler (eagle and swastika).

It permits the holder (a German Reich citizen) to engage in peddling/itinerant trade under specified conditions.

Mentions accompanying persons who may assist in the trade.

Includes fields like residence, nationality, type of goods sold, and means of transport (“Beförderungsmittel: Handwagen” = handcart).

Stamp: Official stamp of Der Landrat Offenbach am Main with eagle/swastika and signature.

Date of issue: 19 January 1940.