The Der Ahnenpass of Obereichsleiter Kreisleiter Dr. Arthur Kolb

The Der Ahnenpass (Ancestor Pass) of Obereichsleiter Kreisleiter Dr. Arthur Kolb (b. 1885 - d. 1945)
hardback 48-page booklet, complete, divided into sections where family histories are documented and officially stamped, the first page further inscribed 'Oberbereichsleiter Kreisleter Dr. Arthur Friedr. Ludw. Kobl, Amberg, Archivstr. 5/I. Sold together with a black and white photograph of Dr. Kolb and an envelope written in Kolb's hand.

An Ahnenpass was a standard booklet issued in the Third Reich in Germany. In it, people recorded their Ayran ancestry, which they were required to trace back at least four generations to avoid being categorized as Jewish.

Notes: Dr Kolb was a German dentist and National Socialist. He served with the Corps Baruthia during the early part of the First World War before switching to dentistry. He qualified in 1919 and went on to receive his doctorate in medical dentristry in 1920. In 1929, he went to work in the Upper Palatinate, first to Grafenwoehr and then to Amberg in 1927. He is believed to have taken part in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in Nuremberg and took part in the Kapp Putsch in March 1920.

After its failure, he turned to the Völkisch movement and first became a member of the Deutschvolkisher Schutz-und-Trutzbund. In 1926, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party. As a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), he took on the duties of an adjutant to a Standartenfuhrer. He was, among other things, a Reich speaker and a Gau dental special consultant. From March 1923 until his death in 1945, he also sat as a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP. From 1933, he headed the Bavarian state office of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Germany and the state association of dentists. He was involved in the National Socialist German Doctors' Association and the Reichsbund der Kinderreichen, which awarded him the honorary leader's ring and badge of honour. In April 1945, as the district leader of Amberg, he refused to capitulate by handing over the town and was therefore shot by soldiers of the United States Army.