Letter from Max Bredig to the Registry Office of Heidelberg, August 19, 1937
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977) requests his birth certificate from the registry office in Heidelberg, Germany. Max indicates his parents belong to the Protestant faith. Despite being non-practicing, the Bredig family would later be persecuted by the Nazis. The Nazis used the religious observance of a person's grandparents to determine their race.
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Bredig, Max Albert. “Letter from Max Bredig to the Registry Office of Heidelberg, August 19, 1937,” August 19, 1937. Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, Box 8, Folder 1. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/2an82qn.
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Dr. Ing. MAX ALBERT BREDIG
Berlin W15, den 19. 8. 37
Kurfürstendamm 66 II
[stamp]
An das Standesamt Heidelberg
Hierdurch ersuche ich um freundliche umgehende Ausstellung einer Geburtskunde in doppelter Ausführung. (Ein Geburtsschein, der nur ein Auszug aus dem Geburtenregister ist, genügt nicht!) Ich bitte um Zusendung, eventuell unter obiger Adresse.
[signature: Dr. ing. Max-Albert Bredig]
Dr. ing. Max-Albert Bredig
geboren zu Heidelberg am 20. Juni 1902 als Sohn des Professors Dr. Georg Bredig und seiner Frau Rosa Bredig geb. Fraenkel, evangel., damals wohnhaft zu Heidelberg, Rohrbacher Strasse 70.
Dr. MAX ALBERT BREDIG, Engineer
Berlin W15, 19 August 1937
Kurfürstendamm 66 II
[stamp]
To: Heidelberg Registry Office
Herewith, I kindly request the immediate issuance of my birth certificate in duplicate (a birth certificate, which is only an excerpt from the birth register, is not sufficient!) Please send these to me at the above address.
[signature: Dr. Max-Albert Bredig, Engineer]
Dr. Max-Albert Bredig, Engineer
I was born in Heidelberg on 20 June 1902 as the son of Professor Dr. Georg Bredig and his wife Rosa Bredig née Fraenkel, both of Protestant faith, who lived at that time at Rohrbacher Strasse 70 in Heidelberg.
